Manga109Dialog: A Large-scale Dialogue Dataset for Comics Speaker Detection

arXiv:2306.17469v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The expanding market for e-comics has spurred interest in the development of automated methods to analyze comics. For further understanding of comics, an automated approach is needed to link text in comics to characters speaking the words. Comics speaker detection research has practical applications, such as automatic character assignment for audiobooks, automatic translation according to characters' personalities, and inference of character relationships and stories.
To deal with the problem of insufficient speaker-to-text annotations, we created …

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