The Visual Language Research Corpus (VLRC) Project

The Visual Language Research Corpus (VLRC) is comprised of annotations of a corpus of comics analyzing the structures in visual languages of the world. The VLRC includes ~36,000 coded panels from 300+ comics from Europe, Asia, and the United States, spanning across 80 decades of publication dates (1940-present), and various genres (e.g., superhero, indy, etc.). It also includes annotation of the entire run of the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip. Comics have been analyzed for a variety of properties, including panel framing, situational relations between panels, external compositional structure (page layout), multimodality, and a variety of other structures.

视觉语言研究语料库（Visual Language Research Corpus，VLRC）由用于分析全球视觉语言结构的漫画语料标注集组成。该语料库收录了来自欧洲、亚洲及美国的300余部漫画中的约3.6万个编码漫画分格，其出版时间跨度覆盖80个十年（1940年至今），涵盖超级英雄、独立漫画等多种类型。此外，该语料库还包含对《凯文的幻虎世界（Calvin & Hobbes）》全套漫画连载的完整标注。目前研究人员已针对该语料库涵盖的漫画的多项属性展开分析，包括分格构图、分格间情境关联、外部构图结构（页面排版）、多模态性以及其他多种视觉语言结构。