@inproceedings{zhao-etal-2023-parrot,
title = "{PARROT}: Zero-Shot Narrative Reading Comprehension via Parallel Reading",
author = "Zhao, Chao and
Vijjini, Anvesh and
Chaturvedi, Snigdha",
editor = "Bouamor, Houda and
Pino, Juan and
Bali, Kalika",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.895",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.895",
pages = "13413--13424",
abstract = "Narrative comprehension is a challenging task that requires a deep understanding of the foundational elements of narratives. Acquiring this skill requires extensive annotated data. To mitigate the burden of data annotation, we present Parrot, a zero-shot approach for narrative reading comprehension through parallel reading, which involves two parallel narratives that tell the same story. By leveraging one narrative as a source of supervision signal to guide the understanding of the other, Parrot abstracts the textual content and develops genuine narrative understanding. Evaluation conducted on two narrative comprehension benchmarks demonstrates that Parrot surpasses previous zero-shot approaches and achieves comparable performance to fully supervised models. The code will be available at https://github.com/zhaochaocs/Parrot.",
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%T PARROT: Zero-Shot Narrative Reading Comprehension via Parallel Reading
%A Zhao, Chao
%A Vijjini, Anvesh
%A Chaturvedi, Snigdha
%Y Bouamor, Houda
%Y Pino, Juan
%Y Bali, Kalika
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
%D 2023
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Singapore
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%R 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.895
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.895
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.895
%P 13413-13424
Markdown (Informal)
[PARROT: Zero-Shot Narrative Reading Comprehension via Parallel Reading](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.895) (Zhao et al., Findings 2023)
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