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Frank Keller
Google Scholar ID: -lbtnAgAAAAJ
University of Edinburgh
natural language processing
language and vision
cognitive modeling
computational narrative
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What, When, and How: Audio Description as Constrained Global Optimization
2026
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Comparing British and American Audio Description of Movies
2026
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REFRAMED: Towards Realistic Audio Description Generation for Movies
2026
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How to Correctly Make Mistakes: A Framework for Constructing and Benchmarking Mistake Aware Egocentric Procedural Videos
2026
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Think Before you Write: QA-Guided Reasoning for Character Descriptions in Books
2026
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MIXAR: Scaling Autoregressive Pixel-based Language Models to Multiple Languages and Scripts
2026
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Contrastive Learning with Narrative Twins for Modeling Story Salience
2026
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$How^{2}$: How to learn from procedural How-to questions
2025
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Professor at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Affiliated with EdinburghNLP, the Natural Language Processing Group at the University of Edinburgh
Main research areas: natural language processing and cognitive science
Focuses on language and vision tasks such as image description, visual grounding, video summarization, and visual storytelling
Second research focus: computational narrative, modeling narrative concepts like characters, plot turning points, and suspense
Works on understanding or generating long-form texts (e.g., movie scripts or books), which is challenging for LLMs
Co-authors
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Vera Demberg
Saarland University, MPI for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus
Desmond Elliott
Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
David Reitter
Google DeepMind
Vittorio Ferrari
Principal Research Scientist at Meta
Dim P. Papadopoulos
Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark
Laura Sevilla-Lara
Reader at University of Edinburgh
Jasper R. R. Uijlings
Researcher at the University of Edinburgh
Spandana Gella
ServiceNow AI Research