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 …

Lifelong experiences and learned knowledge lead to shared expectations about how
common situations tend to unfold. Such knowledge of narrative event flow enables people to …

This paper investigates the capability of LLMs in storytelling, focusing on narrative
development and plot progression. We introduce a novel computational framework to …

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

Narrative structure is an ubiquitous and intriguing phenomenon. By virtue of structure we
recognize the presence of Villainy or Revenge in a story, even if that word is not actually …

Advances in computing power, natural language processing, and digitization of text now
make it possible to study a culture's evolution through its texts using a 'big data'lens. Our …

Over the past decade, the field of natural language processing has developed a wide array
of computational methods for reasoning about narrative, including summarization …

Representation and learning of commonsense knowledge is one of the foundational
problems in the quest to enable deep language understanding. This issue is particularly …

Writers generally rely on plans or sketches to write long stories, but most current language
models generate word by word from left to right. We explore coarse-to-fine models for …

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