1. A method comprising: under control of one or more processors configured with instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to perform acts comprising: initiating presentation of a media file on a touchscreen display, the media file including video; detecting a user gesture performed on the touchscreen display; determining text selected by the user gesture; determining a user intent based at least partly on the text selected by the user gesture; determining a context associated with the text selected by the user gesture based on the user intent, the context including additional text captured in the video, wherein the additional text is associated with the text selected by the user gesture; and automatically performing one or more follow-up actions based at least partly on the text selected by the user gesture and based at least partly on the context.
1. A method comprising: under control of one or more processors configured with instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to perform acts comprising: initiating presentation of a media file on a touchscreen display, the media file including video; detecting a user gesture performed on the touchscreen display; determining text selected by the user gesture; determining a user intent based at least partly on the text selected by the user gesture; determining a context associated with the text selected by the user gesture based on the user intent, the context including additional text captured in the video, wherein the additional text is associated with the text selected by the user gesture; and automatically performing one or more follow-up actions based at least partly on the text selected by the user gesture and based at least partly on the context. 6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more follow-up actions include: submitting, to a search engine, a search query that includes the text or translated text, wherein the translated text is created by translating the text selected by the user gesture from a source language to a target language.