CARDINAL: Computer Assisted Authoring of Movie Scripts

We present Cardinal, a tool for computer-assisted authoring of movie scripts. Cardinal provides a means of viewing a script through a variety of perspectives, for interpretation as well as editing. This is made possible by virtue of intelligent automated analysis of these natural language scripts and generating different intermediate representations. We extract information about the actions occurring in the narrative, which then empowers these views. Cardinal generates 2-D and 3-D visualizations of the scripted narrative and also presents interactions in a timeline-based view. The user study reveals that users of the system demonstrated confidence and comfort using the system.