VISUAL STORYLINE GENERATION FROM TEXT STORY

摘要

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving a story, wherein the story is received in a text-based format; identifying conversational blocks contained within the story, wherein the identifying conversational blocks comprises (i) identifying conversational turns within the story, (ii) identifying topic switches between conversational turns, and (iii) grouping conversational turns occurring between topic switches into a conversational block; for each of the conversational blocks, obtaining at least one image illustrating the corresponding conversational block, wherein the obtaining comprises (i) extracting concepts from the conversational block and (ii) identifying images illustrating the concepts; and generating a visual storyline representing the story by ordering the images obtained for each of the conversational blocks, based upon an order of the conversational blocks within the story, wherein the generating comprises refining the images to maintain consistency between the images.