Over the past decade, the field of natural language processing has developed a wide array
of computational methods for reasoning about narrative, including summarization …

Humans have made profound changes to the Earth. The resulting societal challenges of the
Anthropocene (eg, climate change and impacts, renewable energy, adaptive infrastructure …

Presence, flow, narrative absorption, immersion, transportation, and similar subjective
phenomena are studied in many different disciplines, mostly in relation to mediated …

Humans exist as part of social-ecological systems (SES) in which biological, physical,
chemical, economic, political and other social processes are tightly interwoven. Global …

Narrative can be conceptualised as a complex system, with pragmatic benefits for our
description of interpretative and affective processes involved in reading. In this article, I show …

This paper proposes a sentiment-centric pipeline to perform unsupervised plot extraction on
non-linear novels like Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, a novel widely considered to be …

Abstract The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into research workflows has the
potential to transform the study of political content on social media. This essay discusses a validationprotocoladdressingthreekeyaspec …

Storytelling is a universal human practice that serves as a key site of education, collective
memory, fostering social belief systems, and furthering human creativity. It can occur in …

In this essay, we provide a framework for the empirical testing of narrative theory using the
process of machine learning and predictive modeling. Drawing on a collection of over …

This paper provides an overview of outstanding major research goals for the field of
computational narrative understanding. Storytelling is an essential human practice, one that …