Accepted Papers

Virtual poster session (8:00-8:45am ET)

Evaluation Metrics for Depth and Flow of Knowledge in Non-fiction Narrative Texts  Sachin Pawar, Girish Palshikar, Ankita Jain, Mahesh Singh, Mahesh Rangarajan, Aman Agarwal, Vishal Kumar and Karan Singh

Identifying Visual Depictions of Animate Entities in Narrative Comics: An Annotation Study  Lauren Edlin and Joshua Reiss

Story Settings: A Dataset  Kaley Rittichier

What is Wrong with Language Models that Can Not Tell a Story?  Ivan Yamshchikov and Alexey Tikhonov

Virtual poster session (2:30-3:30pm ET)

Emotion and Modifier in Henry Rider Haggard's Novels  Salim Sazzed

An Analysis of Reader Engagement in Literary Fiction through Eye Tracking and Linguistic Features  Rose Neis, Karin de Langis, Zae Myung Kim and Dongyeop Kang

Transferring Procedural Knowledge across Commonsense Tasks*  Yifan Jiang, Filip Ilievski and Kaixin Ma [pdf]

Unsupervised Task Graph Generation from Instructional Video Transcripts*  Lajanugen Logeswaran, Sungryull Sohn, Yunseok Jang, Moontae Lee and Honglak Lee

In-person poster session (2:30-3:30pm ET)

Narrative Cloze as a Training Objective: Towards Modeling Stories Using Narrative Chain Embeddings  Hans Ole Hatzel and Chris Biemann

Dramatic Conversation Disentanglement*  Kent Chang, Danica Chen and David Bamman [pdf] [poster]

Composition and Deformance: Measuring Imageability with a Text-to-Image Model  Si Wu and David Smith

Synopses of Movie Narratives: a Video-Language Dataset for Story Understanding*  Yidan Sun, Qin Chao, Yangfeng Ji and Boyang Li

The Candide model: How narratives emerge where observations meet beliefs  Paul Van Eecke, Lara Verheyen, Tom Willaert and Katrien Beuls

Echoes from Alexandria: A Large Resource for Multilingual Book Summarization  Alessandro Scirè, Simone Conia, Simone Ciciliano and Roberto Navigli

What's New? Identifying the Unfolding of New Events in a Narrative  Seyed Mahed Mousavi, Shohei Tanaka, Gabriel Roccabruna, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura and Giuseppe Riccardi

Mrs. Dalloway Said She Would Segment the Chapters Herself  Peiqi Sui, Lin Wang, Sil Hamilton, Thorsten Ries, Kelvin Wong and Stephen T. Wong

Modeling Readers' Appreciation of Literary Narratives Through Sentiment Arcs and Semantic Profiles  Pascale Moreira, Yuri Bizzoni, Kristoffer Nielbo, Ida Marie Lassen and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

Word Category Arcs in Literature Across Languages and Genres  Winston Wu, Lu Wang and Rada Mihalcea

*=non-archival