Schedule
July 9, 2020
All times are in PDT
Time
8:15-8:30
Event
Opening Remarks
Speakers
8:30-9:30
Paper Q&A Session #1
Script Induction as Association Rule Mining - Anton Belyy and Benjamin Van Durme
CompRes: A Dataset for Narrative Structure in News - Effi Levi, Guy Mor, Shaul Shenhav and Tamir Sheafer
New Insights into Cross-Document Event Coreference: Systematic Comparison and a Simplified Approach - Andres Cremisini and Mark Finlayson
Systematic Evaluation of a Framework for Unsupervised Emotion Recognition for Narrative Text - Samira Zad and Mark Finlayson
Emotion Arcs of Student Narratives - Swapna Somasundaran, Xianyang Chen and Michael Flor
Exploring the Effect of Author and Reader Identity in Online Story Writing: the STORIESINTHEWILD Corpus. - Tal August, Maarten Sap, Elizabeth Clark, Katharina Reinecke and Noah A. Smith
Frustratingly Hard Evidence Retrieval for QA Over Books - Xiangyang Mou, Mo Yu, Bingsheng Yao, Chenghao Yang, Xiaoxiao Guo, Saloni Potdar and Hui Su
Annotating and quantifying narrative time disruptions in modernist and hypertext fiction - Edward Kearns
Extracting Message Sequence Charts from Hindi Narrative Text - Swapnil Hingmire, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Avinash Kumar Singh, Sangameshwar Patil, Girish Palshikar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Vasudeva Varma
9:30-10:00
Live talk
Toward Narrative Summarization of Simulated Battles - Andrew Gordon
10:00-11:00
Invited Speaker Panel A
Toward Narrative Summarization of Simulated Battles - Andrew Gordon (live)
LIGHT: Language in Games with Humans and Text - Angela Fan
Toward Narrative NLP: The Utility of Adapting Models to the Narrative Case - Mark Finlayson
How is fiction predictable? - Ted Underwood
12:00-13:30
Annotation Exercise
The Language of COVID-19: Narrative, Event and Storyline Understanding
14:30-15:00
Live talk
Summarization of Stories and Events - Kathleen McKeown
15:00-16:00
Invited Speaker Panel B
Summarization of Stories and Events - Kathleen McKeown
Video Analysis for Event Understanding - Alexander G. Hauptmann
Affective Events and Narrative Understanding - Ellen Riloff
16:00-17:00
Paper Q&A Session #2
Automatic extraction of personal events from dialogue - Joshua Eisenberg and Michael Sheriff
Bringing Stories Alive: Generating Interactive Fiction Worlds - Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Wesley Cheung, Dan Tu, William Broniec and Mark Riedl
Extensively Matching for Few-shot Learning Event Detection - Viet Dac Lai, Thien Huu Nguyen and Frank Dernoncourt
Exploring aspects of similarity between spoken personal narratives by disentangling them into narrative clause types - Belen Saldias and Deb Roy
Detecting and understanding moral biases in news - Usman Shahid, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew Rojecki and Elena Zheleva
Improving the Identification of the Discourse Function of News Article Paragraphs - Deya Banisakher, W. Victor Yarlott, Mohammed Aldawsari, Naphtali Rishe and Mark Finlayson
Screenplay Quality Assessment: Can We Predict Who Gets Nominated? - Ming-Chang Chiu, Tiantian Feng, Xiang Ren and Shrikanth Narayanan
On-The-Fly Information Retrieval Augmentation for Language Models - Hai Wang and David McAlleste
17:00-17:15
Closing Remarks