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Human annotators manually code events from Wikipedia summaries for three films, then align these events to events automatically extracted by ML methods. The study examines coverage, event duration, length, and event type to judge alignment quality. Results indicate computational narratology should integrate multimodal event datasets that reflect both visual and verbal cues.","University of Groningen  \nEvaluation and Alignment of Movie Events Extracted via Machine Learning from a Narratological Perspective  \nZhou, Feng; Pianzola, Federico  \nPublished in:  \nProceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2023  \nIMPORTANT NOTE: You are advised to consult the publisher's version (publisher's PDF) if you wish to cite from it. 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Our exploration suggests that computational narratology should combine datasets with events extracted from multimodal data sources that take into account both visual and verbal cues when detecting events.  \nKeywords  \nmovie events, narrative events, computational narratology, audio description, movie summaries  \n1. Introduction  \nThe events that compose a story are crucial for researchers conducting content analysis of movies [16] . As arti昀椀cial intelligence aims to achieve the ability to automatically understand narratives as a long-term goal [4], researchers continuously develop and improve machine learning (ML) methods for more accurate event extraction from audiovisual narratives. However, the unstructured nature of video data and advanced semantic content of movies pose challenges for computers in understanding and processing videos [17, 30] . The e昀昀ectiveness of ML in event extraction from audiovisual material still lags behind human manual extraction [16] . Moreover, narrative understanding is a border and more complex process that involves hermeneutic processes that go beyond the identi昀椀cation of events [21] . 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