Social scientists have become increasingly interested in how narratives--the stories in
fiction, politics, and life--shape beliefs, behavior, and government policies. This paper …

Social scientists have become increasingly interested in how narratives—the stories in
fiction, politics, and life—shape beliefs, behavior, and government policies. This paper …

We develop social network and “relative sentiment shift” analysis techniques to study how
financial narratives influence financial markets. First, we analyze Reuters News articles …

Human communication is invariably executed in the form of a narrative, an account of
connected events comprising characters, actions, and settings. A coherent and well …

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis that has been testing every society and exposing
the critical role of local politics in crisis response. In the United States, there has been a …

Scholars across disciplines have long debated the existence of a common structure that
underlies narratives. Using computer-based language analysis methods, several structural …

Narratives, and other forms of discourse, are powerful vehicles for informing, entertaining,
and making sense of the world. But while everyday language often describes discourse as …

Parliamentary debates present a valuable language resource for analyzing comprehensive
options in electing representatives under a functional, free society. However, the esoteric …

Politicians often have underlying agendas when reacting to events. Arguments in contexts of
various events reflect a fairly consistent set of agendas for a given entity. In spite of recent …

Modeling the ideological perspectives of political actors is an essential task in computational
political science with applications in many downstream tasks. Existing approaches are …