verbal indication.
6 Conclusion & Future Work
In this work, we applied a deep learning-based
method to predict severity of age-restricted con-
tent based on movie script data. The experimen-
tal results show the proposed multi-task ranking-
classification model outperforms the previous state-
of-the-art method and can give rich interpretabil-
ity by demonstrating severity using example com-
parator movies. Our work provides a reasonable
groundbreaking exploration in this research topic
for the community. For future work, we propose to
investigate other modalities to capture relevant pat-
terns and fine-grained aspects like violence types.
Acknowledgements
This work was partially supported by the National
Science Foundation under grant # 2036368. We
would like to thank the anonymous EMNLP re-
viewers for their feedback on this work.
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