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title = "Detecting Narrative Elements in Informational Text",
author = "Levi, Effi and
Mor, Guy and
Sheafer, Tamir and
Shenhav, Shaul",
editor = "Carpuat, Marine and
de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine and
Meza Ruiz, Ivan Vladimir",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022",
month = jul,
year = "2022",
address = "Seattle, United States",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.133",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.findings-naacl.133",
pages = "1755--1765",
abstract = "Automatic extraction of narrative elements from text, combining narrative theories with computational models, has been receiving increasing attention over the last few years. Previous works have utilized the oral narrative theory by Labov and Waletzky to identify various narrative elements in personal stories texts. Instead, we direct our focus to informational texts, specifically news stories. We introduce NEAT (Narrative Elements AnnoTation) {--} a novel NLP task for detecting narrative elements in raw text. For this purpose, we designed a new multi-label narrative annotation scheme, better suited for informational text (e.g. news media), by adapting elements from the narrative theory of Labov and Waletzky (Complication and Resolution) and adding a new narrative element of our own (Success). We then used this scheme to annotate a new dataset of 2,209 sentences, compiled from 46 news articles from various category domains. We trained a number of supervised models in several different setups over the annotated dataset to identify the different narrative elements, achieving an average $F_1$ score of up to 0.77. The results demonstrate the holistic nature of our annotation scheme as well as its robustness to domain category.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Detecting Narrative Elements in Informational Text
%A Levi, Effi
%A Mor, Guy
%A Sheafer, Tamir
%A Shenhav, Shaul
%Y Carpuat, Marine
%Y de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine
%Y Meza Ruiz, Ivan Vladimir
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022
%D 2022
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Seattle, United States
%F levi-etal-2022-detecting
%X Automatic extraction of narrative elements from text, combining narrative theories with computational models, has been receiving increasing attention over the last few years. Previous works have utilized the oral narrative theory by Labov and Waletzky to identify various narrative elements in personal stories texts. Instead, we direct our focus to informational texts, specifically news stories. We introduce NEAT (Narrative Elements AnnoTation) – a novel NLP task for detecting narrative elements in raw text. For this purpose, we designed a new multi-label narrative annotation scheme, better suited for informational text (e.g. news media), by adapting elements from the narrative theory of Labov and Waletzky (Complication and Resolution) and adding a new narrative element of our own (Success). We then used this scheme to annotate a new dataset of 2,209 sentences, compiled from 46 news articles from various category domains. We trained a number of supervised models in several different setups over the annotated dataset to identify the different narrative elements, achieving an average F₁ score of up to 0.77. The results demonstrate the holistic nature of our annotation scheme as well as its robustness to domain category.
%R 10.18653/v1/2022.findings-naacl.133
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.133
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.findings-naacl.133
%P 1755-1765
Markdown (Informal)
[Detecting Narrative Elements in Informational Text](https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.133) (Levi et al., Findings 2022)
ACL
- Effi Levi, Guy Mor, Tamir Sheafer, and Shaul Shenhav. 2022. Detecting Narrative Elements in Informational Text. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, pages 1755–1765, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.