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Reader reviews of literary fiction on social media, especially those in persistent, dedicated forums, create and are in turn driven by underlying narrative frameworks. In their comments about a novel, readers generally include only a subset…

Tags assigned by users to shared content can be ambiguous. As a possible solution, we propose semantic tagging as a collaborative process in which a user selects and associates Web resources drawn from a knowledge context. We applied this…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Bernhard Haslhofer , Werner Robitza , Carl Lagoze , Francois Guimbretiere

Script knowledge consists of detailed information on everyday activities. Such information is often taken for granted in text and needs to be inferred by readers. Therefore, script knowledge is a central component to language comprehension.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Lilian D. A. Wanzare , Michael Roth , Manfred Pinkal

Online movie review platforms are providing crowdsourced feedback for the film industry and the general public, while spoiler reviews greatly compromise user experience. Although preliminary research efforts were made to automatically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Heng Wang , Wenqian Zhang , Yuyang Bai , Zhaoxuan Tan , Shangbin Feng , Qinghua Zheng , Minnan Luo

Understanding movies and their structural patterns is a crucial task in decoding the craft of video editing. While previous works have developed tools for general analysis, such as detecting characters or recognizing cinematography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Alejandro Pardo , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Juan León Alcázar , Ali Thabet , Bernard Ghanem

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of sentiment analysis methods for movie reviews, a benchmark task that has played a central role in advancing natural language processing. We review the evolution of techniques from early…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Agnivo Gosai , Shuvodeep De , Karun Thankachan , Ramadan A. ZeinEldin , Ali W. Mohamed , Seyed J. Mousavirad

We introduce the MovieQA dataset which aims to evaluate automatic story comprehension from both video and text. The dataset consists of 14,944 questions about 408 movies with high semantic diversity. The questions range from simpler "Who"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Makarand Tapaswi , Yukun Zhu , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Antonio Torralba , Raquel Urtasun , Sanja Fidler

Movie screenplays are rich long-form narratives that interleave complex character relationships, temporally ordered events, and dialogue-driven interactions. While prior benchmarks target individual subtasks such as question answering or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Qiuyu Tian , Zequn Liu , Yiding Li , Fengyi Chen , Youyong Kong , Fan Guo , Yuyao Li , Jinjing Shen , Zhijing Xie , Yiyun Luo , Xin Zhang , Yingce Xia

Understanding the sentiment of a comment from a video or an image is an essential task in many applications. Sentiment analysis of a text can be useful for various decision-making processes. One such application is to analyse the popular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi , Vigneshwaran Muralidaran , Ruba Priyadharshini , John P. McCrae

The goal of this study is to develop and analyze multimodal models for predicting experienced affective responses of viewers watching movie clips. We develop hybrid multimodal prediction models based on both the video and audio of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Ha Thi Phuong Thao , Dorien Herremans , Gemma Roig

Audio Description (AD) provides linguistic descriptions of movies and allows visually impaired people to follow a movie along with their peers. Such descriptions are by design mainly visual and thus naturally form an interesting data source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Anna Rohrbach , Atousa Torabi , Marcus Rohrbach , Niket Tandon , Christopher Pal , Hugo Larochelle , Aaron Courville , Bernt Schiele

Movie posters are vital for captivating audiences, conveying themes, and driving market competition in the film industry. While traditional designs are laborious, intelligent generation technology offers efficiency gains and design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Meng Xu , Tong Zhang , Fuyun Wang , Yi Lei , Xin Liu , Zhen Cui

An NLP model that understands stories should be able to understand the characters in them. To support the development of neural models for this purpose, we construct a benchmark, Story2Personality. The task is to predict a movie character's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yisi Sang , Xiangyang Mou , Mo Yu , Dakuo Wang , Jing Li , Jeffrey Stanton

Most image-search approaches today are based on the text based tags associated with the images which are mostly human generated and are subject to various kinds of errors. The results of a query to the image database thus can often be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-08-03 Ankit Garg , Rahul Dwivedi , Krishna Asawa

While recent advancements in generative models have achieved remarkable visual fidelity in video synthesis, creating coherent multi-shot narratives remains a significant challenge. To address this, keyframe-based approaches have emerged as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Peixuan Zhang , Zijian Jia , Kaiqi Liu , Shuchen Weng , Si Li , Boxin Shi

Movie trailers are an essential tool for promoting films and attracting audiences. However, the process of creating trailers can be time-consuming and expensive. To streamline this process, we propose an automatic trailer generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Dawit Mureja Argaw , Mattia Soldan , Alejandro Pardo , Chen Zhao , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Joon Son Chung , Bernard Ghanem

In this paper, we introduce a set of opinion annotations for the POM movie review dataset, composed of 1000 videos. The annotation campaign is motivated by the development of a hierarchical opinion prediction framework allowing one to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Alexandre Garcia , Slim Essid , Florence d'Alché-Buc , Chloé Clavel

We apply the concept of users' emotion vectors (UVECs) and movies' emotion vectors (MVECs) as building components of Emotion Aware Recommender System. We built a comparative platform that consists of five recommenders based on content-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-29 John Kalung Leung , Igor Griva , William G. Kennedy

Cinemagraphs are a compelling way to convey dynamic aspects of a scene. In these media, dynamic and still elements are juxtaposed to create an artistic and narrative experience. Creating a high-quality, aesthetically pleasing cinemagraph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Tae-Hyun Oh , Kyungdon Joo , Neel Joshi , Baoyuan Wang , In So Kweon , Sing Bing Kang

Oscar nominations are an important factor in the movie industry because they can boost both the visibility and the commercial success. This work explores whether it is possible to predict Oscar nominations for screenplays using modern…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Francis Gross