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title = "{K}now{V}is: Knowledge-Centric Visual Summarization for Video Lectures",
author = "Xu, Yi and
Hou, Yifan and
Zhang, Xiaoyu",
editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and
Dev, Sunipa and
Li, Jessy and
Elliott, Desmond",
booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026",
month = oct,
year = "2026",
address = "Budapest, Hungary",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2413/",
pages = "51823--51840",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0",
abstract = "Video lectures are valuable educational resources, but their dense and lengthy formats often overwhelm novice learners. This difficulty stems from a fundamental pedagogical mismatch: while videos deliver transient information linearly, human learning requires constructing interconnected cognitive networks, a task that induces severe cognitive overload for novice learners lacking prior domain knowledge. Existing video summarization methods fail to resolve this mismatch, as they primarily produce text-heavy, linear condensations that still demand high cognitive effort. To bridge this gap, we propose KnowVis, a framework that transforms linear video lectures into pedagogically grounded visual narratives. KnowVis first extracts a detailed concept map from multimodal video content to identify important and challenging threshold concepts, then constructs structured knowledge units, and finally synthesizes engaging visual summaries. Alongside the framework, we introduce a curated dataset of 125 educational videos across 10 academic disciplines, paired with 1,079 generated visual summaries. Extensive automated evaluations and a human study demonstrate that, compared to state-of-the-art baselines, KnowVis generates more accurate and clear visuals that successfully reduce cognitive load and significantly improve student learning effectiveness and knowledge retention."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T KnowVis: Knowledge-Centric Visual Summarization for Video Lectures
%A Xu, Yi
%A Hou, Yifan
%A Zhang, Xiaoyu
%Y Lee, Hung-Yi
%Y Dev, Sunipa
%Y Li, Jessy
%Y Elliott, Desmond
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
%D 2026
%8 October
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Budapest, Hungary
%@ 979-8-89176-462-0
%F xu-etal-2026-knowvis
%X Video lectures are valuable educational resources, but their dense and lengthy formats often overwhelm novice learners. This difficulty stems from a fundamental pedagogical mismatch: while videos deliver transient information linearly, human learning requires constructing interconnected cognitive networks, a task that induces severe cognitive overload for novice learners lacking prior domain knowledge. Existing video summarization methods fail to resolve this mismatch, as they primarily produce text-heavy, linear condensations that still demand high cognitive effort. To bridge this gap, we propose KnowVis, a framework that transforms linear video lectures into pedagogically grounded visual narratives. KnowVis first extracts a detailed concept map from multimodal video content to identify important and challenging threshold concepts, then constructs structured knowledge units, and finally synthesizes engaging visual summaries. Alongside the framework, we introduce a curated dataset of 125 educational videos across 10 academic disciplines, paired with 1,079 generated visual summaries. Extensive automated evaluations and a human study demonstrate that, compared to state-of-the-art baselines, KnowVis generates more accurate and clear visuals that successfully reduce cognitive load and significantly improve student learning effectiveness and knowledge retention.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2413/
%P 51823-51840
Markdown (Informal)
[KnowVis: Knowledge-Centric Visual Summarization for Video Lectures](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2413/) (Xu et al., Findings 2026)
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