Narration as Functions: from Events to Narratives
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Identifying events from text has a long past in narrative analysis, but a short history in Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this position paper, a question is asked: given the telling of a sequence of real-world events by a news narrator, what do NLP event extraction models capture, and what do they miss? Insights from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and from a series of movements in literary criticism motivate us to model the narrated logic in news narratives. As a result, a computational framework is proposed to model the function of news narration, which shapes the narrated world, consumed by news narratees. As a simplification, we represent the causal logic between events depicted in the narrated world.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | WNU 2024 - 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding : Proceedings of the Workshop |
Editors | Yash Kumar Lal, Elizabeth Clark, Mohit Iyyer, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Anneliese Brei, Faeze Brahman, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu |
Number of pages | 7 |
Place of Publication | Miami, Florida |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Publication date | 2024 |
Pages | 1-7 |
ISBN (electronic) | 979-889176174-2 |
Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Event | 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding, WNU 2024 - Miami, United States Duration: 15.11.2024 → … Conference number: 6 |
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