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Media narratives wield tremendous power in shaping public opinion, yet computational approaches struggle to capture the nuanced storytelling structures that communication theory emphasizes as central to how meaning is constructed. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Rohan Das , Advait Deshmukh , Alexandria Leto , Zohar Naaman , I-Ta Lee , Maria Leonor Pacheco

Importance sampling of trajectories has proved a uniquely successful strategy for exploring rare dynamical behaviors of complex systems in an unbiased way. Carrying out this sampling, however, requires an ability to propose changes to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-01 Todd R. Gingrich , Phillip L. Geissler

Recent retrieval-augmented models enhance basic methods by building a hierarchical structure over retrieved text chunks through recursive embedding, clustering, and summarization. The most relevant information is then retrieved from both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Charbel Chucri , Rami Azouz , Joachim Ott

Pattern extraction algorithms are enabling insights into the ever-growing amount of today's datasets by translating reoccurring data properties into compact representations. Yet, a practical problem arises: With increasing data volumes and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Michael Behrisch , Robert Krueger , Fritz Lekschas , Tobias Schreck , Nils Gehlenborg , Hanspeter Pfister

Natural language processing is an important discipline with the aim of understanding text by its digital representation, that due to the diverse way we write and speak, is often not accurate enough. Our paper explores different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Kastriot Kadriu , Milenko Obradovic

This paper proposes a text summarization approach for factual reports using a deep learning model. This approach consists of three phases: feature extraction, feature enhancement, and summary generation, which work together to assimilate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Sukriti Verma , Vagisha Nidhi

Large Language Model agents often retrieve context from knowledge bases that lack structural consistency with the agent's current reasoning state, leading to incoherent reasoning chains. We introduce Path-Constrained Retrieval (PCR), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Joseph Oladokun

Narrative is a ubiquitous component of human communication. Understanding its structure plays a critical role in a wide variety of applications, ranging from simple comparative analyses to enhanced narrative retrieval, comprehension, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Prashanth Vijayaraghavan , Deb Roy

Storytelling and narrative are fundamental to human experience, intertwined with our social and cultural engagement. As such, researchers have long attempted to create systems that can generate stories automatically. In recent years,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yuxin Wang , Jieru Lin , Zhiwei Yu , Wei Hu , Börje F. Karlsson

Stories are central to human culture, serving to share ideas, preserve traditions, and foster connections. Automatic story generation, a key advancement in artificial intelligence (AI), offers new possibilities for creating personalized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jiaming Li , Yukun Chen , Ziqiang Liu , Minghuan Tan , Lei Zhang , Yunshui Li , Run Luo , Longze Chen , Jing Luo , Ahmadreza Argha , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny , Wei Zhou , Min Yang

We propose the task of narrative incoherence detection as a new arena for inter-sentential semantic understanding: Given a multi-sentence narrative, decide whether there exist any semantic discrepancies in the narrative flow. Specifically,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Deng Cai , Yizhe Zhang , Yichen Huang , Wai Lam , Bill Dolan

Data-rich documents are commonly found across various fields such as business, finance, and science. However, a general limitation of these documents for reading is their reliance on text to convey data and facts. Visual representation of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zekai Shao , Leixian Shen , Haotian Li , Yi Shan , Huamin Qu , Yun Wang , Siming Chen

The amount of data for processing and categorization grows at an ever increasing rate. At the same time the demand for collaboration and transparency in organizations, government and businesses, drives the release of data from internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Jan Neerbek

Keyword-based searches are today's standard in digital libraries. Yet, complex retrieval scenarios like in scientific knowledge bases, need more sophisticated access paths. Although each document somewhat contributes to a domain's body of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hermann Kroll , Pascal Sackhoff , Timo Breuer , Ralf Schenkel , Wolf-Tilo Balke

Narratives are widely recognized as a powerful tool for structuring information and facilitating comprehension of complex ideas in various domains such as science communication. This paper investigates whether incorporating narrative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Vahid Sadiri Javadi , Johanne R. Trippas , Yash Kumar Lal , Lucie Flek

Due to the large amount of textual information available on Internet, it is of paramount relevance to use techniques that find relevant and concise content. A typical task devoted to the identification of informative sentences in documents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Jorge V. Tohalino , Diego R. Amancio

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital content, the task of summarizing multimedia documents, which encompass textual, visual, and auditory elements, presents intricate challenges. These challenges include extracting pertinent…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Azze-Eddine Maredj , Madjid Sadallah

This paper creates a paradigm shift with regard to the way we build neural extractive summarization systems. Instead of following the commonly used framework of extracting sentences individually and modeling the relationship between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Ming Zhong , Pengfei Liu , Yiran Chen , Danqing Wang , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Automatic extraction of cause-effect relationships from natural language texts is a challenging open problem in Artificial Intelligence. Most of the early attempts at its solution used manually constructed linguistic and syntactic rules on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Nabiha Asghar

Trajectory representation learning on a network enhances our understanding of vehicular traffic patterns and benefits numerous downstream applications. Existing approaches using classic machine learning or deep learning embed trajectories…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yuanbo Tang , Zhiyuan Peng , Yang Li