# Aligning Script Events with Narrative Texts

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05709 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1710.05709/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 16 Oct 2017.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Goal-Oriented Script Construction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.13189/) (2021)
- [Non-Sequential Graph Script Induction via Multimedia Grounding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.17542/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Script knowledge plays a central role in text understanding and is relevant for a variety of downstream tasks. In this paper, we consider two recent datasets which provide a rich and general representation of script events in terms of paraphrase sets. We introduce the task of mapping event mentions in narrative texts to such script event types, and present a model for this task that exploits rich linguistic representations as well as information on temporal ordering. The results of our experiments demonstrate that this complex task is indeed feasible.