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An Analysis of Chinese time-synchronic comments on film videos with Natural Language Processing methods – Ms Wenjing Ni, The University of Hong Kong

Room 4.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

  Abstract: Films have attracted interests from different disciplines. One crucial question discussed by psychologists is whether a film interacts with the human emotional system. Experiments on film viewers' self-projection, identification with film characters, or immediate neural responses have been evidence of film's affective power. However, the study on the contents of viewers' viewing experience is less explored due to the shortage of their immediate comments on ongoing stories.   In the past decade, the advent of bullet-screen, an interactive video comment featured by many Asian video-sharing platforms, has made it possible to explore time-synchronic video comments. With bullet-screen, which is [...]