Previously on the Stories: Recap Snippet Identification for Story Reading

Understand

Similar to the "previously-on" scenes in TV shows, recaps can help book reading by recalling the readers' memory about the important elements in previous texts to better understand the ongoing plot.

• Despite its usefulness, this application has not been well studied in the NLP community.
• We propose the first benchmark on this useful task called Recap Snippet Identification with a hand-crafted evaluation dataset.
• Our experiments show that the proposed task is challenging to PLMs, LLMs, and proposed methods as the task requires a deep understanding of the plot correlation between snippets.