Researchers edit ‘special issue’ on narrative representations from texts

Researchers Alípio M. Jorge and Ricardo Campos from INESC TEC's Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Laboratory (LIAAD) and Sérgio Nunes from INESC TEC’s Centre for Information and Computer Graphics Systems (CSIG) are going to edit a special edition on narrative extraction from texts.

The “special issue” follows the Text2Story 2018 workshop (First International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts) that was organised on 26 March in Grenoble (France).

In this special edition, the authors aimed to foster the discussion of recent advances in the link between Information Retrieval (IR) and formal narrative representation from texts. More specifically, they aim to capture a wide range of multidisciplinary issues related to the text-to-narrative-structure and to its various related tasks.

This is a very rich line of research that poses many challenging problems in information retrieval, text mining, information extraction, computational linguistics and automatic production of media content.

This edition also has the collaboration of Adam Jatowt (from Kyoto University, Japan). 

Any new submissions are welcomed until 16 July. The special edition is expected to be released by mid-2019 by Elsevier.

The INESC TEC researchers mentioned in this news piece are associated with INESC TEC, IPT, UP-FEUP and UP-FCUP.