Information Processing & Management Journal Special Issue on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story)

Changing the Narrative Perspective: From Deictic to Anaphoric Point of View

“…Overall, the new task of changing narrative perspectives can be seen as part of a larger interdisciplinary area concerned with computational approaches to storytelling and narrative processing. A number of diverse tasks being addressed in this area and related fields have been explored in the Storytelling Workshop series (Mitchell et al, 2018), as well as within this journal in its Special Issue on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Jorge et al, 2019). Finally, very recent developments in the field are to be presented in the upcoming Fourth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story) (Campos et al, 2021).…”

The 3$$^{\mathrm {rd}}$$ International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts: Text2Story 2020

“…In these two first editions, we had an approximate number of 70 participants, 16 research papers presented, plus demo and poster sessions, and vibrant talks from our four invited keynotes: Udo Kruschwitz (University of Essex), Eric Gaussier (University Grenoble Alps), Iryna Gurevych (Technische Universität Darmstadt), and Miguel Martinez-Alvarez (Signal AI). In addition to this, we also edited the Text2Story Special Issue on IPM Journal [10] which had more than 30 submissions and 8 papers accepted, demonstrating the growing activity of this specific research area. The organizers of the workshop have also been actively involved in this research area with the proposal and the contribution of new methods and solutions, most notably the YAKE!…”

Leveraging digital forensics and data exploration to understand the creative work of a filmmaker: A case study of Stephen Dwoskin's digital archive

“…In 2013, the University of Reading (UoR) acquired the archive of the experimental filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin 1 , presenting a unique opportunity to approach his work, through one of the most comprehensive holdings of a single artist filmmaker in the UK 2 . The research presented in this paper is part of the research project, "The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin's Personal Cinema", 3 developed with the broad objective to understand what the Dwoskin archive can reveal about the aesthetic, cultural, and historical conditions, the experience of disability, independent creative practice, and economic and technological changes which independent filmmaking underwent from 1960's onwards.…”

“…Apart from his role in the independent filmmaker scene of the 1960s and 1970s, Dwoskin's struggle with disabilities and how this influenced his social circumstances and artistic practice holds pertinent interest in the 1 University of Reading Special Collections MS5502 2 Stephen Dwoskin was best known for his central role in establishing "the London Filmmakers' Co-op (LFMC) and then the Independent Filmmakers' Association in the 1970s (an organisation that paved the way for Channel 4). The earlier work of LFMC, in turn, contributed to the founding of LUX and LUX Scotland active international arts agencies that promote artists' moving image practices.…”

“…[77]) and narrative extraction received recent attention in special issues (e.g. [2]) where some research brought timeline summarisation together with narrative generation (e.g. [9]).…”