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Modeling Naive Psychology of Characters in Simple Commonsense Stories

arXiv 1805.06533 ↗First posted 16 May 2018cs.CLcited by 60

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Abstract (arXiv)

Understanding a narrative requires reading between the lines and reasoning about the unspoken but obvious implications about events and people's mental states - a capability that is trivial for humans but remarkably hard for machines. To facilitate research addressing this challenge, we introduce a new annotation framework to explain naive psychology of story characters as fully-specified chains of mental states with respect to motivations and emotional reactions. Our work presents a new large-scale dataset with rich low-level annotations and establishes baseline performance on several new tasks, suggesting avenues for future research.

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  6. 2023Visual Writing Prompts: Character-Grounded Story Generation with Curated Image Sequencescited by 31
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  8. 2025Toward Generalizable Evaluation in the LLM Era: A Survey Beyond Benchmarkscited by 27
  9. 2024The Colorful Future of LLMs: Evaluating and Improving LLMs as Emotional Supporters for Queer Youthcited by 20
  10. 2021Emotion Dynamics in Movie Dialoguescited by 19
  11. 2021DREAM: Improving Situational QA by First Elaborating the Situationcited by 18
  12. 2021Position Bias Mitigation: A Knowledge-Aware Graph Model for Emotion Cause Extractioncited by 17
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  2. 2023Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narrativescited by 14
  3. 2024Large Language Models Fall Short: Understanding Complex Relationships in Detective Narrativescited by 14
  4. 2023Values, Ethics, Morals? On the Use of Moral Concepts in NLP Researchcited by 13
  5. 2021COINS: Dynamically Generating COntextualized Inference Rules for Narrative Story Completioncited by 12
  6. 2025Towards Online Multi-Modal Social Interaction Understandingcited by 12
  7. 2022What Makes the Story Forward? Inferring Commonsense Explanations as Prompts for Future Event Generationcited by 8
  8. 2022Synopses of Movie Narratives: a Video-Language Dataset for Story Understandingcited by 8
  9. 2023Understand the Dynamic World: An End-to-End Knowledge Informed Framework for Open Domain Entity State Trackingcited by 8
  10. 2023CRoW: Benchmarking Commonsense Reasoning in Real-World Taskscited by 8
  11. 2021PyPlutchik: visualising and comparing emotion-annotated corporacited by 6
  12. 2022CHAE: Fine-Grained Controllable Story Generation with Characters, Actions and Emotionscited by 6
  13. 2023Don't Take This Out of Context! On the Need for Contextual Models and Evaluations for Stylistic Rewritingcited by 6
  14. 2024BLIP: Facilitating the Exploration of Undesirable Consequences of Digital Technologiescited by 6
  15. 2021SOCCER: An Information-Sparse Discourse State Tracking Collection in the Sports Commentary Domaincited by 4
  16. 2021Natural Language Processing with Commonsense Knowledge: A Surveycited by 4
  17. 2022Building a Dialogue Corpus Annotated with Expressed and Experienced Emotionscited by 4
  18. 2022PASTA: A Dataset for Modeling Participant States in Narrativescited by 4
  19. 2022COMMA: Modeling Relationship among Motivations, Emotions and Actions in Language-based Human Activitiescited by 4
  20. 2024MLD-EA: Check and Complete Narrative Coherence by Introducing Emotions and Actionscited by 4
  21. 2025MotiveBench: How Far Are We From Human-Like Motivational Reasoning in Large Language Models?cited by 4
  22. 2022Possible Stories: Evaluating Situated Commonsense Reasoning under Multiple Possible Scenarioscited by 3
  23. 2023M-SENSE: Modeling Narrative Structure in Short Personal Narratives Using Protagonist's Mental Representationscited by 3
  24. 2025Social Story Frames: Contextual Reasoning about Narrative Intent and Receptioncited by 3
  25. 2021Commonsense Knowledge in Word Associations and ConceptNetcited by 2
  26. 2022CogIntAc: Modeling the Relationships between Intention, Emotion and Action in Interactive Process from Cognitive Perspectivecited by 2
  27. 2022Psychology-guided Controllable Story Generationcited by 2
  28. 2023COMET-M: Reasoning about Multiple Events in Complex Sentencescited by 2
  29. 2021Modeling Human Mental States with an Entity-based Narrative Graphcited by 1
  30. 2023Visual Story Generation Based on Emotion and Keywordscited by 1
  31. 2026Computational Representations of Character Significance in Novelscited by 1
  32. 2026Same Lesson, Different Story: Cross-Lingual Reconstruction of Cultural Narratives in Large Language Modelscited by 1
  33. 2021CHARET: Character-centered Approach to Emotion Tracking in Storiescited by 0
  34. 2021SINGA-Easy: An Easy-to-Use Framework for MultiModal Analysiscited by 0
  35. 2021VisualTextRank: Unsupervised Graph-based Content Extraction for Automating Ad Text to Image Searchcited by 0
  36. 2021Text is NOT Enough: Integrating Visual Impressions into Open-domain Dialogue Generationcited by 0
  37. 2022Discovering Personalized Semantics for Soft Attributes in Recommender Systems using Concept Activation Vectorscited by 0
  38. 2022Reinforced MOOCs Concept Recommendation in Heterogeneous Information Networkscited by 0

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