AI4Narratives

Narratives are an important human tool for communication, representation and understanding. Natural Language Processing already offers many instruments that enable the automatic extraction of narrative elements from texts, including Named Entity Recognition, Semantic Role Labeling, Sentiment Analysis, Anaphora Resolution, Temporal Reasoning, etc. The storyfication of data is being used to generate textual reports on finance and sports, among others. Timelines and infographics can be employed to represent in a more compact way automatically identified narrative chains in a large set of news articles, assisting human readers in grasping complex stories with different moments and a network of characters. While the Automatic Generation of Text shows impressive results towards computational creativity, it still needs to develop means for controlling the narrative intent of the output.