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Date: 13-Apr-2010
From: Mark Finlayson < markaf at mit.edu >
Subject: Computational Models of Narrative
 

	
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:09:55
From: Mark Finlayson [markaf at mit.edu]
Subject: Computational Models of Narrative

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Full Title: Computational Models of Narrative 

Date: 11-Nov-2010 - 13-Nov-2010
Location: Washington, DC, USA 
Contact Person: Mark Finlayson
Meeting Email: narrative-fs10 at csail.mit.edu
Web Site: http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/fs10 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Ling &
Literature; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 14-May-2010 

Meeting Description:

Despite a revival of interest in the computational understanding of narrative,
there is still great uncertainty regarding fundamental questions. This symposium
will bring together researchers with a wide variety of perspectives to share
what is known about the fundamentals of the computational modeling of narrative
and to explore the forefront of that knowledge.  We seek participation from as
wide a variety of approaches as possible, including not only AI researchers and
technologists, but also psychologists, cognitive scientists, linguists,
philosophers, narrative theorists, anthropologists, educators, storytellers, and
neuroscientists. 

Call for Papers

AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium on Computational Models of Narrative
November 11-13, 2010, Arlington, Virginia

Submissions Due:  Friday, May 14, 2010

Narratives are ubiquitous.  We use them to educate, communicate, convince,
explain, and entertain. As far as we know, every society has narratives, which
suggests they are deeply rooted and serve an important cognitive function: that
narratives do something for us.  It is clear that, to fully explain human
intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand and explain
narrative.

Topics
Despite a revival of interest in the computational understanding of  narrative,
there is still great uncertainty regarding fundamental questions.  What does
narrative do for us?  What exactly is narrative? What representations are
required to model narrative?  This symposium will address fundamental topics and
questions regarding the computational modeling and scientific understanding of
narrative. Immediate technological applications, while not discouraged, are not
required. Questions include:

-  What makes narrative different from a list of events or facts?  What is
special about the discourse that makes something a narrative, rather than
something else?

-  What is the relationship between narrative and common sense?  Does
understanding narrative first require we understand common sense reasoning?

-  How are narratives indexed and retrieved?  Is there a "universal" scheme for
encoding narratives?

-  What impact does the purpose, function, and genre of a narrative have on its
form and content?

-  Are there systematic differences in the formal properties of narratives from
different cultures?

-  What comprises the set of possible narrative arcs?  Is there such a set?  Is
there a recipe for generating narratives?

-  What are the appropriate representations for the computational modeling of
narrative?  What representations underlie the extraction of narrative schemas
from experience?

-  How can we evaluate computational models of narrative?

Submissions
Interested parties should send either a full paper (8 pages maximum) or a
position paper (2 pages maximum) as a AAAI-formatted PDF to
narrative-fs10 at csail.mit.edu. Accepted papers will be published in the
proceedings of the symposium, which will be released as a AAAI Symposium
technical report. For detailed formatting instructions, see the AAAI website
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php

Organizing Committee
-  Mark Finlayson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL)
-  Pablo Gervas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
-  Erik Mueller (IBM)
-  Srini Narayanan (ICSI and University of California at Berkeley)
-  Patrick Winston (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL)

For More Information
Web: http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/fs10
Email: narrative-fs10 at csail.mit.edu





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