The ScriptBase Corpus

If you use this data, please cite either or both of the following papers:

If you are using ScriptBase-alpha:

Philip John Gorinski and Mirella Lapata (2015). Movie Script Summarization as Graph-based Scene Extraction. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2015, Denver, Colorado, USA.

If you are using ScriptBase-j:

Philip John Gorinski and Mirella Lapata (2018). What's this Movie about? A Joint Neural Network Architecture for Movie Content Analysis. In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

The ScriptBase Corpus is split in two parts:

ScriptBase-alpha: The first crawl of movie scripts

ScriptBase-J: Additional meta data from Jinni

ScriptBase-alpha can be found in the scriptbase_alpha folder.

It contains .tar.gz archives with the following data for 1,276 movies:

script.htm / script.html - in cases where the script was crawled from a web-page in HTML format
script.txt - plain-text version of the movie script
wiki.html - the movie's Wikipedia[1] page (2014 dump)
imdb.html - the movie's main IMDB[2] page (2014 dump)
keywords.html - the movie's IMDB keywords page
credits.html - the movie's IMDB credits page
summary.html - the movie's IMDB summaries page
synopsis.html - the movie's IMDB synopsis page
taglines.html - the movie's IMDB taglines page
processed/imdb_meta - meta data extracted from IMDB
processed/logTag.txt - the movie's log line(s) and tag line(s), if it has any
processed/wikiplot.txt - plain-text version of Wikipedia's plot section for the movie
processed/summaries/ - folder containing plain-text versions of the movie's IMDB summaries (if any)

ScriptBase-J can be found in the scriptbase_jinni folder.

It contains .tar.gz archives with the following additional data for 917 movies:

jinni.html - the movie's Jinni[3] page (2015 dump)
processed/script_clean.txt - plain-text version of the movie script, manually corrected for inconsistencies
processed/script.xml - XML version of the movie script, with various automatic annotations
processed/profile.txt - Jinni's movie profile in plain-text format
processed/genes.txt - all Jinni genes (attribute-value pairs) for the movie

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/

[2] https://www.imdb.com/

[3] http://www.jinni.com/

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