Papers with Novels
Analyzing Film Adaptation through Narrative Alignment (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a new study examines the book-to-film adaptation process by examining the differences between the two media . novel adaptations often require dropping sections of the source text from the movie script . |
| Approach: | They use a Smith-Waterman local alignment algorithm to quantify text similarity between scenes and book units. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reveals that novel adaptations often require dropping parts of the source text from the movie script. |