Over the past decade, the field of natural language processing has developed a wide array
of computational methods for reasoning about narrative, including summarization …

Narrative understanding involves capturing the author's cognitive processes, providing
insights into their knowledge, intentions, beliefs, and desires. Although large language …

As the body of research on machine narrative comprehension grows, there is a critical need
for consideration of performance assessment strategies as well as the depth and scope of …

The success of Hollywood cinema is partially attributed to the notion that Hollywood film-
making constitutes both an art and an industry: an artistic tradition based on a standardized …

The task of topical segmentation is well studied, but previous work has mostly addressed it
in the context of structured, well-defined segments, such as segmentation into paragraphs …

The vast collection of Holocaust survivor testimonies presents invaluable historical insights
but poses challenges for manual analysis. This paper leverages advanced Natural …

In recent decades, efforts have been made to gather and digitize the testimonies of living
Holocaust survivors. The challenge we now face is attending to those thousands of human …

A basic human survival capability lies in understanding other people. Individuals want to
understand other people to predict their personalities (Carlson, 1992), motivations (Lynch …

From the perspective of Text World Theory, narratives contain elements (indications of time,
place, characters, etc.) that can be automatically identified and compared to establish …