When TV Guide decided to dismiss her in 1983 to replace her column with a computerized movie summary, executives told her that they might beg her to return in six months.
You can click the top-right button to get a movie summary, in case you get a movie you never heard of before.
The main contribution of this research includes (1) a construction of the social network of the characters to determine the protagonist, character's role and the storyline in the given movie, and (2) a method to formulate the movie summary and indexing using social network technique.
Part of building this app was assembling a collection of assets that could be fetched on demand, including the sound files themselves, movie summaries, poster art, and links to the various third-party services.
Two kinds of evaluation were performed, an objective based on the saliency annotation of the database and an extensive qualitative human evaluation of the automatically produced summaries, where we investigated what composes high-quality movie summaries, where both methods verified the appropriateness of the proposed methods.
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Her character, Sister Hilde, a missionary working in South Africa, delivers the movie's summary benediction: a rambling, eccentric message from the great beyond that makes the film's closing note of cosmic compassion ring painfully flat.
Expert summaries: For the seven Hollywood movie clips, summaries (ca. 5 min long) created by an experienced user (professionally associated with film production and editing) are available.
Writer quotes movie plot summaries from it, which are very strange indeed.
Presentation speed of each control summary movie was set to match the duration of the corresponding highlight movies for the event boundary and event middle conditions (e.g., breakfast summary = 68 s, full movie = 328 s, summary movie presented at an increased speed of 450%).
For the unedited condition, participants were told that they would be watching a movie without a summary presented afterwards.
