Narrative Theme Navigation for Sitcoms Supported by Fan-Generated Scripts
Title | Narrative Theme Navigation for Sitcoms Supported by Fan-Generated Scripts |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2013 |
Authors | Friedland, G., Janin A., & Gottlieb L. |
Published in | Multimedia Tools and Applications |
Volume | 63 |
Issue | 2 |
Page(s) | 387-406 |
Other Numbers | 3199 |
Abstract | The following article presents a novel method to generateindexing information for the navigation of TV content andpresents an implementation that extends the Joke-O-Matsitcom navigation system, presented in [1]. The extendedsystem enhances Joke-o-mats capability to browse a sitcomby scene, punchline, dialog segment, and actor withword-level keyword search. The indexing is performed basedon the alignment of the multimedia content with closedcaptions and found fan-generated scripts processed withspeech and speaker recognition systems. This significantlyreduces the amount of manual intervention required for trainingnew episodes, and the final narrative-theme segmentationhas proven indistinguishable from expert annotation.This article describes the new Joke-o-mat system, discussesproblems with using fan-generated data, and presents resultson episodes from the sitcom Seinfeld, showing segmentationaccuracy and user satisfaction as determined by a human subjectstudy. |
Acknowledgment | This work was partially supported by funding provided to ICSI by Microsoft, Intel, and U.C. Discovery. |
URL | http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/speech/narrativethemenavigation11.pdf |
Bibliographic Notes | Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 63, Issue 2, pp. 387-406, Springer. |
Abbreviated Authors | G. Friedland, A. Janin, and L. Gottlieb |
ICSI Research Group | Audio and Multimedia |
ICSI Publication Type | Article in journal or magazine |