April 10th, 2025 - Lucca, Italy

Text2Story 2025

Eighth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts
held in conjunction with the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval

Call for papers

Overview

For seven years, the Text2Story Workshop series has fostered a vibrant community dedicated to understanding narrative structure in text, resulting in significant contributions to the field and developing a shared understanding of the challenges in this domain. While traditional methods have yielded valuable insights, the advent of Transformers and LLMs have ignited a new wave of interest in narrative understanding. In the eighth edition of the Text2Story workshop, we propose to go deeper into the role of LLMs in narrative understanding exploring the issues involved in using LLMs to unravel narrative structures, while also examining the characteristics of narratives generated by LLMs. By fostering dialogue on these emerging areas, we aim to identify the wide-ranging issues related to the narrative extraction task and continue the workshop's tradition of driving innovation in narrative understanding research.

Call for papers

Research works submitted to the workshop should advance the scientific understanding of all aspects of narrative extraction from texts. This includes, but is not limited to, topics such as narrative information extraction, formal representation of narratives, narrative analysis and generation, development of datasets and evaluation protocols, as well as ethics and bias in narratives, and narrative applications. We encourage the submission of high-quality and original submissions covering the following topics and contributions focused on low and medium-resource languages.

    Information Extraction Aspects

  • Temporal Relation Identification
  • Temporal Reasoning and Ordering of Events
  • Causal Relation Extraction and Arrangement
  • Big Data Applied to Narrative Extraction
  • Narrative Representation

  • Annotation protocols
  • Narrative Representation Models
  • Lexical, Syntactic, and Semantic Ambiguity in Narrative Representation
  • Narrative Analysis and Generation

  • Argumentation Analysis
  • Language Models and Transfer Learning in Narrative Analysis
  • Narrative Analysis in Low-resource Languages
  • Multilinguality: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Narrative Analysis
  • Comprehension of Generated Narratives
  • Story Evolution and Shift Detection
  • Automatic Timeline Generation
  • Datasets and Evaluation Protocol

  • Evaluation Methodologies for Narrative Extraction
  • Annotated datasets
  • Narrative Resources
  • Ethics and Bias in Narratives

  • Bias Detection and Removal in Generated Stories
  • Ethical and Fair Narrative Generation
  • Misinformation and Fact Checking
  • Narrative Applications

  • Narrative-focused Search in Text Collections
  • Narrative Summarization
  • Narrative Q&A
  • Multi-modal Narrative Summarization
  • Sentiment and Opinion Detection in Narratives
  • Social Media Narratives
  • Narrative Simplification
  • Personalization and Recommendation of Narratives
  • Storyline Visualization

Important Dates

  • January 24th, 2025
    Submission Deadline
  • March 3rd, 2025
    Acceptance Notification
  • March 17th, 2025
    Camera-ready copies
  • April 10th, 2025
    Workshop

Submissions

We solicit the following types of contributions:

Full Papers

up to 8 pages + references

Original and high-quality unpublished contributions to the theory and practical aspects of the narrative extraction task. Full papers should introduce existing approaches, describe the methodology and the experiments conducted in detail. Negative result papers to highlight tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome are also welcomed.

Short Papers

up to 5 pages + references

Unpublished short papers describing work in progress; position papers introducing a new point of view, a research vision or a reasoned opinion on the workshop topics; and dissemination papers describing project ideas, ongoing research lines, case studies or summarized versions of previously published papers in high-quality conferences/journals that is worthwhile sharing with the Text2Story community, but where novelty is not a fundamental issue.

Demos | Resource Papers

up to 5 pages + references

Unpublished papers presenting research/industrial demos; papers describing important resources (datasets or software packages) to the Text2Story community;


Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through Easy Chair . All submissions must be in English and formatted according to the one-column CEUR-ART style with no page numbers. Templates, either in Word or LaTeX, can be found in the following zip folder . There is also an Overleaf page for LaTeX users.

IMPORTANT: Please include between brackets the type of submission (full; negative results; work in progress; demo and resource; position; dissemination) in the paper title.

Papers submitted to Text2Story 2025 should be original work and different from papers that have been previously published, accepted for publication, or that are under review at other venues. Exceptions to this rule are "dissemination papers". Pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible.

All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer-review process by at least two members of the programme committee. The accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published at CEUR workshop proceedings (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they don't conflict with previous publication rights.

Organization

Organizing Committee

Web and Dissemination Chair

  • Hugo Sousa (INESC TEC & University of Porto)
  • Behrooz Mansouri (University of Southern Maine)

Attending


Text2Story 2025 will be held at the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'25) in Lucca, Italy

Registration at ECIR 2025 is required to attend the workshop (don't forget to select the Text2Story workshop).

Acknowledgements

This work is financed by National Funds through the FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within the project StorySense, with reference 2022.09312.PTDC (DOI 10.54499/2022.09312.PTDC).