Title
Extraction and Analysis of Dynamic Conversational Networks from TV Series.
Abstract
Identifying and characterizing the dynamics of modern TV series subplots is an open problem. One way is to study the underlying social network of interactions between the characters. Standard dynamic network extraction methods rely on temporal integration, either over the whole considered period, or as a sequence of several time-slices. However, they turn out to be inappropriate in the case of TV series, because the scenes shown on-screen alternatively focus on parallel story lines, and do not necessarily respect a traditional chronology. In this article, we introduce Narrative Smoothing, a novel network extraction method taking advantage of the plot properties to solve some of their limitations. We apply our method to a corpus of three popular series, and compare it to both standard approaches. Narrative smoothing leads to more relevant observations when it comes to the characterization of the protagonists and their relationships, confirming its appropriateness to model the intertwined story lines constituting the plots.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-319-78196-9_3
Lecture Notes in Social Networks
Keywords
DocType
Volume
TV series,Plot analysis,Dynamic social network
Journal
abs/1805.06782
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2190-5428
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xavier Bost186.42
Vincent Labatut222727.37
Serigne Gueye3588.42
georges linar es413629.55