Using rhetorical annotations for generating video documentaries

Stefano Bocconi, Frank Nack, and Lynda Hardman

Using rhetorical annotations for generating video documentaries
technical report INS-E0501
January 2005

Available at http://db.cwi.nl/rapporten/abstract.php?abstractnr=1693

Abstract

We use rhetorical annotations to specify a generation process that can assemble meaningful video sequences with a communicative goal and an argumentative progression. Our annotation schema encodes the verbal information contained in the audio channel, identifying the claims the interviewees make and the argumentation structures they use to make those claims. Based on this schema, we construct a semantic graph which is traversed by rhetoric-based strategies selecting video segments. The selected video segments are edited to form a meaningful video sequence.

Keywords: Media semantics, media rhetorics, automated video editing, multimedia presentation generation, video documentaries

Relevant projects: ToKeN

Citation key: INS-E0501
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