Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story 2018)

The First International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story 2018) will be held on March 26th in Grenoble, France under the umbrella of ECIR’18 (40th European Conference on Information Retrieval). Text2Story will feature the presentation of 6 papers, a poster session, 2 keynote speakers (Eric Gaussier and Udo Kruschwitz) and a slot for demonstrations. 

The increasing availability of text information in the form of news articles, comments or posts poses new challenges for those who aim to understand the storyline of an event. Although understanding natural language text has improved over the last couple of years with several research works emerging on the grounds of information extraction and text mining, the problem of constructing consistent narrative structures is yet to be solved. We still have a challenging path ahead of us for the development and improvement of algorithms that automatically identify, interpret and relate the different elements of a narrative which will be likely spread from different sources.

In this workshop, we aim to foster the discussion of recent advances in the link between Information Retrieval (IR) and formal narrative representations from texts. More specifically, we aim to capture a wide range of multidisciplinary issues related to the text-to-narrative-structure and to its various related tasks. The workshop will feature a diversity of tasks and techniques with promising results for an exciting task.