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Main Authors: Paval, Sandro, Yamshchikov, Ivan P., Meißner, Pascal
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16190
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author Paval, Sandro
Yamshchikov, Ivan P.
Meißner, Pascal
author_facet Paval, Sandro
Yamshchikov, Ivan P.
Meißner, Pascal
contents Comics offer a compelling yet under-explored domain for computational narrative analysis, combining text and imagery in ways distinct from purely textual or audiovisual media. We introduce ComicScene154, a manually annotated dataset of scene-level narrative arcs derived from public-domain comic books spanning diverse genres. By conceptualizing comics as an abstraction for narrative-driven, multimodal data, we highlight their potential to inform broader research on multi-modal storytelling. To demonstrate the utility of ComicScene154, we present a baseline scene segmentation pipeline, providing an initial benchmark that future studies can build upon. Our results indicate that ComicScene154 constitutes a valuable resource for advancing computational methods in multimodal narrative understanding and expanding the scope of comic analysis within the Natural Language Processing community.
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spellingShingle ComicScene154: A Scene Dataset for Comic Analysis
Paval, Sandro
Yamshchikov, Ivan P.
Meißner, Pascal
Computation and Language
Comics offer a compelling yet under-explored domain for computational narrative analysis, combining text and imagery in ways distinct from purely textual or audiovisual media. We introduce ComicScene154, a manually annotated dataset of scene-level narrative arcs derived from public-domain comic books spanning diverse genres. By conceptualizing comics as an abstraction for narrative-driven, multimodal data, we highlight their potential to inform broader research on multi-modal storytelling. To demonstrate the utility of ComicScene154, we present a baseline scene segmentation pipeline, providing an initial benchmark that future studies can build upon. Our results indicate that ComicScene154 constitutes a valuable resource for advancing computational methods in multimodal narrative understanding and expanding the scope of comic analysis within the Natural Language Processing community.
title ComicScene154: A Scene Dataset for Comic Analysis
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16190