[Corpora-List] CFP: Narrative and Hypertext 2012

[Catherine Havasi]

Call for Papers
Narrative and Hypertext 2012
Workshop on narrative systems
http://nht.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
To be held in conjunction with Hypertext 2012 in Milwaukee


This workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to bring
together individuals from the humanities and science communities to
share research and discuss state-of-the-art research on narrative from
both a technical and aesthetic perspective.

Narrative is a prevalent form of information common in our
entertainment, communication, and understanding of the world and its
events. By building better models of narrative along with methods for
generation, adaption, and presentation we enable narrative systems to
become more effective but also improve our understanding of narrative
structures.

Narrative might also be used as a discursive representation of
knowledge allowing for the capture of expert understanding. The
potential for grander narratives to be formed from collections of
information or discourse on the web (for example from social media)
means that knowledge or identity might emerge from otherwise seemingly
disparate sources.

There is an increasingly growing community of researchers working on
narrative systems, hypertext narratives, and machine readable
narrative models for which this workshop seeks to act as a hub to
review advances and events over the previous year as well as, looking
forward to the coming year, what the field can achieve. One of the
identified challenges facing this community is the difficulty of
connecting creatives with technologists, which as a topic will form
the centre point of discussion, along with the effect of this issue on
related projects and systems.

This workshop aims to support this work, and the new research to be
presented at the hypertext and narrative connections track at this
year’s conference, by providing an open interdisciplinary forum of
discussion on key issues facing the field. Including (but not limited
to):

- Models of Narrative
- Systems for the Presentation of Narratives
- Adaptive and Personalised Narratives
- Narrative Analysis
- Narrative Generation
- Narrative as a method of Knowledge Capture
- Social Media as Narrative
- Narrative as a lens on identity
- Argumentation and Rhetoric
- Interactive Fiction
- Cinematic Hypertext
- Authorial support systems
- Novel applications of narrative systems
- e-Literature
- Strange Hypertext
- Innovative digital narratives
- Interdisciplinary collaboration on narrative

Participants
Researchers and practitioners working with hypertext or narrative are
invited to attend this workshop. Participants are asked to submit a
short (between 2 and 5 pages ACM format) position paper on their
current work. Authors of papers selected for presentation will be
informed 3 weeks after the submission deadline. All the position
papers of participants will be made available on the workshop website
initially, and later through the ACM Digital Library.

Activities
As with last year the workshop will be split into planned and
serendipitous sessions. The planned sessions will comprise of
presentations of work from those with selected submitted papers with
time for questions and discussion after each.

The serendipitous sessions will depend on the interests of the
attendees of the workshop and will function in the style of an
unconference. The preceding coffee break to each serendipitous session
will allow participants to put forward suggestions for discussion
topics, short presentations, or demos. The organisers will then select
the most popular activities suggested as the focus for that session.

Submission Details
Papers should be in ACM format, be between 2 and 5 pages long and
submitted as a PDF. The papers should be emailed no later than midday
GMT 16th April 2012 to Charlie Hargood at cah07r at ecs.soton.ac.uk.
Submitted papers will be refereed and notification of acceptance sent
out 3 weeks later. Accepted papers will be included alongside the ACM
Hypertext conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library, and
authors will have a week to prepare camera ready papers for submission
after acceptance.

Important Dates:

-       Papers Due                              16th April 2012
-       Notification of acceptance              7th May 2012
-       Camera ready papers due         14th May 2012
-       Workshop                                        25th June 2012

Contact
Should you have any questions please feel free to contact the organisers:
Charlie Hargood: cah07r at ecs.soton.ac.uk
David Millard: dem at ecs.soton.ac.uk
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