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 …

Human communication is often executed in the form of a narrative, an account of connected
events composed of characters, actions, and settings. A coherent narrative structure is …

Stories are a vital form of communication in human culture; they are employed daily to
persuade, to elicit sympathy, or to convey a message. Computational understanding of …

This thesis describes new approaches to the formal modeling of narrative discourse.
Although narratives of all kinds are ubiquitous in daily life, contemporary text processing …

Storytelling, whether via fables, news reports, documentaries, or memoirs, can be thought of
as the communication of interesting and related events that, taken together, form a concrete …

Narrative is a ubiquitous component of human communication. Understanding its structure
plays a critical role in a wide variety of applications, ranging from simple comparative …

This paper provides an overview of outstanding major research goals for the field of
computational narrative understanding. Storytelling is an essential human practice, one that …

The field of narrative (or story) understanding and generation is one of the oldest in natural
language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI), which is hardly surprising, since …

In this paper, we propose the beginnings of a formal framework for modeling narrative qua
narrative. Our framework affords the ability to discuss key qualities of stories and their …

Narratives are fundamental to our perception of the world and are pervasive in all activities
that involve the representation of events in time. Yet, modern online information systems do …