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Towards a Formal Model of Narratives

arXiv 2103.12872 ↗First posted 23 Mar 2021cs.CL cs.AI cs.LOcited by 6

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Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we propose the beginnings of a formal framework for modeling narrative textitqua narrative. Our framework affords the ability to discuss key qualities of stories and their communication, including the flow of information from a Narrator to a Reader, the evolution of a Reader's story model over time, and Reader uncertainty. We demonstrate its applicability to computational narratology by giving explicit algorithms for measuring the accuracy with which information was conveyed to the Reader and two novel measurements of story coherence.

Key facts. Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 4 of its 29 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 23 Mar 2021.

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  1. 2016A Corpus and Evaluation Framework for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Storiescited by 413
  2. 2017Survey of the State of the Art in Natural Language Generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluationcited by 206
  3. 2017Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Netscited by 62
  4. 2019Progressive Attention Memory Network for Movie Story Question Answeringcited by 21

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 1; 2022: 1; 2023: 0; 2024: 3; 2025: 0; 2026: 1.

6 papers.

  1. 2024Enhancing Presentation Slide Generation by LLMs with a Multi-Staged End-to-End Approachcited by 17
  2. 2021Cut the CARP: Fishing for zero-shot story evaluationcited by 14
  3. 2024Media Framing through the Lens of Event-Centric Narrativescited by 5
  4. 2022Topical Segmentation of Spoken Narratives: A Test Case on Holocaust Survivor Testimoniescited by 4
  5. 2024Identifying Narrative Patterns and Outliers in Holocaust Testimonies Using Topic Modelingcited by 0
  6. 2026Reconstructing Persistent Worlds from Narratives for Narrative-Grounded Interactive Experiencescited by 0