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What, When, and How: Audio Description as Constrained Global Optimization
Igor Sterner, Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides +1
Audio Description (AD) makes movies accessible to blind and visually impaired audiences by narrating visual information in gaps between dialogue. Existing automatic AD systems larg…
Learning to Assemble Novel Structures with Unfamiliar Parts under Semantic Constraints
Jonghyuk Park, Alex Lascarides, Subramanian Ramamoorthy
This paper describes a neurosymbolic architecture for learning to assemble novel structures using evidence from embodied conversations and task demonstrations. We focus on scenario…
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…