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[Apologies for multiple postings]<br>
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2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative<br>
May 26‐27, 2012<br>
Lütfi Kirdar Istanbul Exhibition and Congress Centre Istanbul,
Turkey to be co‐located with the LREC’2012, the Language Resources
and Evaluation Conference<br>
Second CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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Paper submission deadline: February 24, 2012<br>
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<b>Workshop Aims</b><br>
Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. We use them to
communicate, convince, explain, and entertain. As far as we know,
every society in the world has narratives, which suggests they are
rooted in our psychology and serve an important cognitive function.
It is becoming increasingly clear that, to truly understand and
explain human intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to
understand why narrative is universal and explain (or explain away)
the function it serves. The aim of this workshop (and its
predecessors) is to address key, fundamental questions about
narrative that advance our fundamental understanding of narrative
and our ability model it computationally.<br>
<b>Special Focus: Shared Resources</b><br>
In addition to fundamental questions, the field has yet to address
key needs with regard to shared resources and corpora that could
smooth and hasten the way forward. The vast majority of work on
narrative uses fewer than four stories to perform their experiments,
and rarely re‐use narratives from previous studies. Because NLP
technology cannot yet take us all the way to the<br>
highly‐accurate formal representations of language semantics, this
implies significant amounts of repeated work in annotation. The way
forward could be catalyzed by a carefully constructed set of shared
resources. This meeting will be an appropriate venue for papers
addressing fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative.
Moreover, the meeting will have a special focus on the
identification, collection, and construction of shared resources and
corpora that facilitate the computational modeling of narrative.
Papers should focus on issues fundamental to computational modeling
and scientific understanding, or issues related to building shared
resources to advance the field. Discussing technological
applications or motivations is not discouraged, but is not required.<br>
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<b>Illustrative Topics and Questions</b><br>
<ul>
<li>What kinds of shared resources are required for the
computational study of narrative?</li>
<li>What content and modalities should be put in a “Story Bank”?
What formal representations should be used?</li>
<li>What shared resources are available, or how can already‐extant
resources be adapted to common needs?</li>
<li>What makes narrative different from a list of events or facts?
What is special that makes something a narrative?</li>
<li>What are the details of the relationship between narrative and
common sense?</li>
<li>How are narratives indexed and retrieved? Is there a
"universal" scheme for encoding episodes?</li>
<li>What impact do the purpose, function, and genre of a narrative
have on its form and content?</li>
<li>What comprises the set of possible narrative arcs? Is there
such a set? How many possible story lines are there?</li>
<li>Are there systematic differences in the formal properties of
narratives from different cultures?</li>
<li>What are appropriate representations for narrative? What
representations underlie the extraction of narrative schemas?</li>
<li>How should we evaluate computational models of narrative?</li>
</ul>
<b><br>
Organizing Committee</b><br>
Mark A. Finlayson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA<br>
Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain<br>
Deniz Yuret, Koc University, Turkey<br>
Floris Bex, University of Dundee, Scotland<br>
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<b>Sponsors</b><br>
There will be a number of travel grants available to workshop
authors via our sponsors:<br>
<ul>
<li>ONR Global</li>
<li>Office of Naval Research</li>
<li>Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency</li>
</ul>
<b>Contact</b><br>
narrative‐<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ws12@csail.mit.edu">ws12@csail.mit.edu</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws12">http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws12</a><br>
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Note: Workshop dates have changed slightly since the first call<br>
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