发表机构
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学信息学院）
机构由 AI 辅助整理，请以论文原文为准。AI 中文总结
本研究对比英美电影音频描述，结合两地准则与从业者看法提出假设，用含206部电影的语料库验证后发现二者在多方面存在差异，为该叙事技巧提供了量化视角。
AI 中文摘要
音频描述是指对电影视觉部分的旁白叙述，是一种为盲人和视力障碍者理解故事设计的叙事技巧，但它比大多数叙事形式受到更多限制：描述不仅要传达电影中的故事，还必须适配对话间隙，且需符合各地区的相关准则。本研究对比英国与美国制作的音频描述，结合两地准则及领域从业者的看法，提出关于差异的具体假设，并用包含206部电影对应的人工创作英美音频描述的现有语料库验证这些假设。结果提供了量化证据支持所有测试的假设，包括词汇、进行体使用、被动结构使用、主观形容词与修饰语使用、角色命名时机、场景提示方式、与电影对话及音乐的重叠程度等方面的差异。本研究为音频描述这一叙事技巧提供了量化视角。
英文摘要
Narrating the visual component of movies is known as audio description. It is a narrative technique designed to enable blind and visually impaired individuals to follow the story. However, it is far more constrained than most narratives: the descriptions not only need to convey the story in the movie, but they must also fit into gaps between dialogue and they need to conform to guidelines that exist in each region. In this work, we compare audio description created in the United Kingdom against audio description created in the United States. We use guidelines written for these two regions, alongside the impressions from a practitioner in the field, to motivate specific hypotheses about the differences. We test these hypotheses against our pre-existing corpus, which provides both human-authored American and British audio description for each of 206 movies. Results provide quantitative evidence to uphold all tested hypotheses, including differences in lexicon, the use of the progressive aspect, the use of passive constructions, the use of subjective adjectives and modifiers, when characters are named, how scenes are cued, and degree of overlap with movie dialogue and music. Our work offers a quantitative lens into the narrative technique of audio description.
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