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To improve information retrieval from films we attempt to segment movies into scenes using the subtitles. Film subtitles differ significantly in nature from other texts; we describe some of the challenges of working with movie subtitles. We test a few modifications to the TextTiling algorithm, in order to get an effective segmentation.
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Scaiano, M., Inkpen, D., Laganière, R., Reinhartz, A. (2010). Automatic Text Segmentation for Movie Subtitles. In: Farzindar, A., Kešelj, V. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6085. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13059-5_32
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