---
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
tags:
- screenplay
- narrative
- salience
- linguistics
language:
- en
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
---

# Screenplay Scene Salience Features

Pre-extracted linguistic and narrative features for screenplay scene salience detection from the MENSA dataset.

## Dataset Description

This dataset contains **913 linguistic features** extracted from movie screenplays in the MENSA dataset. Features are organized into **24 feature groups** covering various aspects of linguistic, narrative, and discourse analysis.

### Dataset Statistics

| Split | Samples | Size |
|-------|---------|------|
| Train | 117,503 | 172.9 MB |
| Validation | 8,052 | 16.1 MB |
| Test | 8,156 | 16.1 MB |
| **Total** | **133,711** | **140.1 MB** |

### Feature Groups (24 groups)

- `base`
- `bert_surprisal`
- `character_arcs`
- `emotional`
- `gc_academic`
- `gc_basic`
- `gc_char_diversity`
- `gc_concreteness`
- `gc_dialogue`
- `gc_discourse`
- `gc_narrative`
- `gc_polarity`
- `gc_pos`
- `gc_pronouns`
- `gc_punctuation`
- `gc_readability`
- `gc_syntax`
- `gc_temporal`
- `ngram`
- `ngram_surprisal`
- `plot_shifts`
- `rst`
- `structure`
- `surprisal`

## Usage

### Option 1: Load with Hugging Face datasets (Recommended)

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

# Load a single feature group
ds = load_dataset("Ishaank18/screenplay-features", data_files="train/base.parquet")
df = ds['train'].to_pandas()

# Load multiple groups for training
ds = load_dataset("Ishaank18/screenplay-features", 
                  data_files={
                      "train": ["train/base.parquet", "train/gc_polarity.parquet", "train/emotional.parquet"]
                  })
df = ds['train'].to_pandas()

# Load all splits for evaluation
ds = load_dataset("Ishaank18/screenplay-features",
                  data_files={
                      "train": "train/gc_polarity.parquet",
                      "validation": "validation/gc_polarity.parquet",
                      "test": "test/gc_polarity.parquet"
                  })
```

### Option 2: Load with pandas directly

```python
import pandas as pd

# From HuggingFace URL
df = pd.read_parquet("hf://datasets/Ishaank18/screenplay-features/train/base.parquet")

# Or if you have the repo cloned locally
df = pd.read_parquet("train/base.parquet")
```

### Option 3: Use custom loader (Easiest)

```python
from feature_cache.load_hf import load_groups

# Load features and labels
X, y = load_groups(
    groups=["base", "gc_polarity", "emotional", "rst"],
    split="train",
    hf_repo="Ishaank18/screenplay-features"
)

# Load features only (no labels)
X = load_groups(
    groups=["base", "gc_polarity"],
    split="test",
    include_label=False,
    hf_repo="Ishaank18/screenplay-features"
)
```

## Data Structure

Each parquet file contains:

- **`movie_id`** (string): Unique movie identifier
- **`scene_index`** (int): Scene index within the movie (0-indexed)
- **`label`** (int): Salience label
  - `0` = Non-salient scene
  - `1` = Salient scene
- **Feature columns**: Various linguistic/narrative features (float/int)

### Example row structure:

| movie_id | scene_index | label | feature_1 | feature_2 | ... |
|----------|-------------|-------|-----------|-----------|-----|
| tt0111161 | 42 | 1 | 0.85 | 12.3 | ... |

## Feature Categories

The features are organized into the following categories:

### Base Features
- Basic linguistic statistics (token count, sentence count, etc.)
- Structural position features (act, scene positions)

### GenreClassifier (GC) Features
- **gc_basic**: Basic linguistic metrics
- **gc_char_diversity**: Character diversity metrics  
- **gc_concreteness**: Concreteness scores
- **gc_dialogue**: Dialogue-specific features
- **gc_discourse**: Discourse markers and connectives
- **gc_narrative**: Narrative structure features
- **gc_polarity**: Sentiment polarity scores
- **gc_pos**: Part-of-speech distributions
- **gc_pronouns**: Pronoun usage patterns
- **gc_punctuation**: Punctuation statistics
- **gc_readability**: Readability metrics
- **gc_syntax**: Syntactic complexity features
- **gc_temporal**: Temporal expressions

### Narrative Features
- **character_arcs**: Character development metrics
- **plot_shifts**: Plot progression indicators
- **structure**: Narrative structure features
- **emotional**: Emotional arc features

### Linguistic Features
- **ngram**: N-gram diversity metrics
- **rst**: Rhetorical Structure Theory features
- **bert_surprisal**: BERT-based surprisal scores
- **ngram_surprisal**: N-gram-based surprisal