All talks will take place at the Hyatt Regency in room Nicollet D3 on the main level.
9:00 - 9:10AM: Welcome
9:10 - 9:50AM: Invited talk by Richard So: "Computational Narratology and Critical Race Theory"
9:50 - 10:30AM: Invited talk by Nanyun Peng: "Analyze, plan, and compose: Towards creative text generation"
10:30 - 11:00AM: Coffee break
11:00AM - 12:15PM: Spotlight presentations
11:00 - 11:25AM: "Towards Coherent and Cohesive Long-form Text Generation" - Woon Sang Cho, Pengchuan Zhang, Yizhe Zhang, Xiujun Li, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett, Mengdi Wang and Jianfeng Gao
11:25AM - 11:50AM: "Diverging Paths in Birth Stories: A Medical Dataset for Narrative Analysis" - Maria Antoniak and David Mimno
11:50AM - 12:15PM: "Character Identification Refined: A Proposal" - Labiba Jahan and Mark Finlayson
12:15 - 12:31PM: Two-minute madness
12:31 - 2:00PM: Lunch
2:00 - 3:30PM: Poster presentations (Hyatt Exhibit Hall)
3:30 - 4:00PM: Coffee break
4:00 - 4:40PM: Invited talk by Mark Riedl: "Computational Narrative Intelligence and the Quest for the Great Automatic Grammatizator"
4:40 - 5:00PM: Closing remarks