Effect of Text Summarization on Generation of Scene Frame for Manga Drawing

This paper aims at the scene frame generation based on the summarization of a narrative text, and studies effect of text summarization on generation of scene frame for manga drawing. Scene frames are generated from a summary using four kinds of importance degrees, the importance degree of an entire narrative text, the importance degree of a story and the importance degree of the first appearance of a character in a story, the importance degree of the sentence location. Subjects experiments are performed in order to verify the effectiveness of the present approach of scene frames generation, and study effect of text summarization. Experimental results show the present system can generate understandable scene frames of Manga from the narrative text with the summarization rate level smaller than 0.4.