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Suggested questions (SQs) provide an effective initial interface for users to engage with their documents in AI-powered reading applications. In practical reading sessions, users have diverse backgrounds and reading goals, yet current SQ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Zihao Lin , Zichao Wang , Yuanting Pan , Varun Manjunatha , Ryan Rossi , Angela Lau , Lifu Huang , Tong Sun

Narratives are key interpretative devices by which humans make sense of political reality. As the significance of narratives for understanding current societal issues such as polarization and misinformation becomes increasingly evident,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Armin Pournaki , Tom Willaert

Sequential modelling entails making sense of sequential data, which naturally occurs in a wide array of domains. One example is systems that interact with users, log user actions and behaviour, and make recommendations of items of potential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Christian Hansen

Data storytelling has seen rapid growth through a proliferation of examples, as well as theoretical and technical advancements contributed across multiple disciplines. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of data storytelling…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Leni Yang , Zezhong Wang , Xingyu Lan

Visual storytelling aims to generate compelling narratives from image sequences. Existing models often focus on enhancing the representation of the image sequence, e.g., with external knowledge sources or advanced graph structures. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Danyang Liu , Mirella Lapata , Frank Keller

This paper proposes new framework of communication system leveraging promising generation capabilities of multi-modal generative models. Regarding nowadays smart applications, successful communication can be made by conveying the perceptual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-11 Hyelin Nam , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Seong-Lyun Kim

Most recent work on interpretability of complex machine learning models has focused on estimating $\textit{a posteriori}$ explanations for previously trained models around specific predictions. $\textit{Self-explaining}$ models where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 David Alvarez-Melis , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Narratives include a rich source of events unfolding over time and context. Automatic understanding of these events provides a summarised comprehension of the narrative for further computation (such as reasoning). In this paper, we study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Seyed Mahed Mousavi , Shohei Tanaka , Gabriel Roccabruna , Koichiro Yoshino , Satoshi Nakamura , Giuseppe Riccardi

Narratives are fundamental to our understanding of the world, providing us with a natural structure for knowledge representation over time. Computational narrative extraction is a subfield of artificial intelligence that makes heavy use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Brian Keith Norambuena , Tanushree Mitra , Chris North

Networks have become the de facto diagram of the Big Data age (try searching Google Images for [big data AND visualisation] and see). The concept of networks has become central to many fields of human inquiry and is said to revolutionise…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Liliana Bounegru , Tommaso Venturini , Jonathan Gray , Mathieu Jacomy

Text-based explanation is a particularly promising approach in explainable AI, but the evaluation of text explanations is method-dependent. We argue that placing the explanations on an information-theoretic framework could unify the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zining Zhu , Frank Rudzicz

Human writers often bookend their writing with ending sentences that relate back to the beginning sentences in order to compose a satisfying narrative that "closes the loop." Motivated by this observation, we propose RENarGen, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Anneliese Brei , Chao Zhao , Snigdha Chaturvedi

The task of providing effective instruction and facilitating comprehension of resources is a substantial difficulty in the field of Quantum Computing, mostly attributable to the complicated nature of the subject matter. Our research-based…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-09-22 Ishan Shivansh Bangroo , Samia Amir

Rapport plays an important role during communication because it can help people understand each other's feelings or ideas and leads to a smooth communication. Computational rapport model has been proposed based on theory in previous work.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Xuhai Xu , Justine Cassell

Algorithms for text-generation in dialogue can be misguided. For example, in task-oriented settings, reinforcement learning that optimizes only task-success can lead to abysmal lexical diversity. We hypothesize this is due to poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Anthony Sicilia , Malihe Alikhani

Story generation aims to generate a long narrative conditioned on a given input. In spite of the success of prior works with the application of pre-trained models, current neural models for Chinese stories still struggle to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Henglin Huang , Chen Tang , Tyler Loakman , Frank Guerin , Chenghua Lin

Mobile devices use language models to suggest words and phrases for use in text entry. Traditional language models are based on contextual word frequency in a static corpus of text. However, certain types of phrases, when offered to writers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Kenneth C. Arnold , Kai-Wei Chang , Adam T. Kalai

In this paper, a unified framework for representing uncertain information based on the notion of an interval structure is proposed. It is shown that the lower and upper approximations of the rough-set model, the lower and upper bounds of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Michael S. K. M. Wong , L. S. Wang , Y. Y. Yao

The controllability of Large Language Models (LLMs) when used as conversational agents is a key challenge, particularly to ensure predictable and user-personalized responses. This work proposes an ontology-based approach to formally define…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Barbara Gendron , Gaël Guibon , Mathieu D'aquin

In this study we propose a framework to characterize documents based on their semantic flow. The proposed framework encompasses a network-based model that connected sentences based on their semantic similarity. Semantic fields are detected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Edilson A. Corrêa , Vanessa Q. Marinho , Diego R. Amancio