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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWNU 2024 - 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding : Proceedings of the Workshop
EditorsYash Kumar Lal, Elizabeth Clark, Mohit Iyyer, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Anneliese Brei, Faeze Brahman, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu
Number of pages7
Place of PublicationMiami, Florida
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Publication date2024
Pages1-7
ISBN (electronic)979-889176174-2
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding, WNU 2024 - Miami, United States
Duration: 15.11.2024 → …
Conference number: 6

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