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Comparing British and American Audio Description of Movies
Igor Sterner, Alex Lascarides, Frank Keller
Narrating the visual component of movies is known as audio description. It is a narrative technique designed to enable blind and visually impaired individuals to follow the story.…
REFRAMED: Towards Realistic Audio Description Generation for Movies
Igor Sterner, Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides +1
Audio Description (AD) is a verbal narration of key visual content in videos, enabling access for visually impaired audiences. Unlike standard video captioning, AD is a structured…
Contrastive Learning with Narrative Twins for Modeling Story Salience
Igor Sterner, Alex Lascarides, Frank Keller
Understanding narratives requires identifying which events are most salient for a story's progression. We present a contrastive learning framework for modeling narrative salience t…
Plancraft: an evaluation dataset for planning with LLM agents
Gautier Dagan, Frank Keller, Alex Lascarides
We present Plancraft, a multi-modal evaluation dataset for LLM agents. Plancraft has both a text-only and multi-modal interface, based on the Minecraft crafting GUI. We include the…
Conversational Code Generation: a Case Study of Designing a Dialogue System for Generating Driving Scenarios for Testing Autonomous Vehicles
Rimvydas Rubavicius, Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone, Alex Lascarides +1
Cyber-physical systems like autonomous vehicles are tested in simulation before deployment, using domain-specific programs for scenario specification. To aid the testing of autonom…