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

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