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Interactive Narrative Analytics: Bridging Computational Narrative Extraction and Human Sensemaking

Human-Computer Interaction 2026-01-19 v1 Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Computers and Society Information Retrieval

Abstract

Information overload and misinformation create significant challenges in extracting meaningful narratives from large news collections. This paper defines the nascent field of Interactive Narrative Analytics (INA), which combines computational narrative extraction with interactive visual analytics to support sensemaking. INA approaches enable the interactive exploration of narrative structures through computational methods and visual interfaces that facilitate human interpretation. The field faces challenges in scalability, interactivity, knowledge integration, and evaluation standardization, yet offers promising opportunities across news analysis, intelligence, scientific literature exploration, and social media analysis. Through the combination of computational and human insight, INA addresses complex challenges in narrative sensemaking.

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@article{arxiv.2601.11459,
  title  = {Interactive Narrative Analytics: Bridging Computational Narrative Extraction and Human Sensemaking},
  author = {Brian Keith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.11459},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

17 pages, 5 figures, published in IEEE Access as open access paper

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