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++ CALL FOR PAPERS ++
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Eighth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'25)
Held in conjunction with the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'25)
April 10th, 2025 – Lucca, Italy
Website: https://text2story25.inesctec.pt/
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++ Important Dates ++
- Submission Deadline: January 24th, 2025
- Acceptance Notification: March 3rd, 2025
- Camera-ready copies: March 17th, 2025
- Workshop: April 10th, 2025

++ Overview ++
For seven years, the Text2Story Workshop series has fostered a vibrant community dedicated to understanding narrative structure in text, resulting in significant contributions to the field and developing a shared understanding of the challenges in this domain. While traditional methods have yielded valuable insights, the advent of Transformers and LLMs have ignited a new wave of interest in narrative understanding. In the eighth edition of the Text2Story workshop, we propose to go deeper into the role of LLMs in narrative understanding exploring the issues involved in using LLMs to unravel narrative structures, while also examining the characteristics of narratives generated by LLMs. By fostering dialogue on these emerging areas, we aim to identify the wide-ranging issues related to the narrative extraction task and continue the workshop's tradition of driving innovation in narrative understanding research.

++ List of Topics ++
Research works submitted to the workshop should advance the scientific understanding of all aspects of narrative extraction from texts. This includes, but is not limited to, topics such as narrative information extraction, formal representation of narratives, narrative analysis and generation, development of datasets and evaluation protocols, as well as ethics and bias in narratives, and narrative applications. We encourage the submission of high-quality and original submissions covering the following topics and contributions focused on low and medium-resource languages.

Narrative Information Extraction
- Identification of Participants, Events and Temporal Expressions
- Identification of Participants, Events and Temporal Expressions
- Temporal Reasoning and Ordering of Events
- Causality Detection
- Big Data Applied to Narrative Extraction
- LLMs for Narrative Extraction

Narrative Representation
- Annotation Protocols
- Narrative Representation Models
- Lexical, Syntactic, and Semantic Ambiguity in Narrative Representation
- LLM-learned Representation

Narrative Analysis and Generation
- Discourse and Argument Structure Analysis
- Narrative analysis of LLM generated text
- Multilingual and Cross-lingual Narrative Analysis
- Story Evolution and Shift Detection
- Automatic Timeline Generation
- Generative Language Models for Narrative Generation

Datasets and Evaluation Protocol
- Evaluating LLM-Generated Narratives
- Evaluation of Multimodal Narrative Models
- Annotated datasets
- Narrative Resources
- Using LLMs for Data Creation and Augmentation

Ethics and Bias in Narratives
- Identifying and Mitigating Bias in Generated Narratives
- Ethical and Fair Narrative Generation
- Misinformation and Fact Checking
- Bias in LLM-generated narratives

Narrative Applications
- Narrative-focused Search in Text Collections
- Narrative Summarization
- Narrative Q&A
- Multimodal Narrative Summarization
- Multimodal Narrative-focused Search
- Sentiment and Opinion Detection in Narratives
- Social Media Narratives
- Narrative Text Simplification
- Narrative-based Text Anonymization
- Personalization and Recommendation of Narratives
- Storyline Visualization (including multimodal) and Narrative Structures

++ Submission Guidelines ++
We solicit the following types of contributions:

-) Full papers (up to 8 pages + references): Original and high-quality unpublished contributions to the theory and practical aspects of the narrative extraction task. Full papers should introduce existing approaches, describe the methodology and the experiments conducted in detail. Negative result papers to highlight tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome are also welcomed.

-) Short papers (up to 5 pages + references): Unpublished short papers describing work in progress; position papers introducing a new point of view, a research vision or a reasoned opinion on the workshop topics; and dissemination papers describing project ideas, ongoing research lines, case studies or summarized versions of previously published papers in high-quality conferences/journals that is worthwhile sharing with the Text2Story community, but where novelty is not a fundamental issue.

-) Demos | Resource Papers (up to 5 pages + references): Unpublished papers presenting research/industrial demos; papers describing important resources (datasets or software packages) to the text2story community;

Submissions will be refereed through a single-blind peer-review process by three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by all the workshop organizers. The accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published at CEUR workshop proceedings (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they don't conflict with previous publication rights.

++ Workshop Format ++
Participants of accepted papers will be given 15 minutes for oral presentations.

++ Invited Speakers ++
Jochen L. Leidner, Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

++ Organizing committee ++
Ricardo Campos (INESC TEC; University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal)
Alípio M. Jorge (INESC TEC; University of Porto, Portugal)
Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Sumit Bhatia (Media and Data Science Research Lab, Adobe)
Marina Litvak (Shamoon Academic College of Engineering, Israel)

++ Proceedings Chair ++
João Paulo Cordeiro (NOVA Lincs & University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal)
Conceição Rocha (INESC TEC, Portugal)

++ Web and Dissemination Chair ++
Hugo Sousa (INESC TEC & University of Porto, Portugal)
Behrooz Mansouri (University of Maine, USA)

++ Program Committee ++
Ali Salehi (University at Buffalo)
Arian Pasquali (Faktion AI)
Andreas Spitz (University of Konstanz)
Antoine Doucet (Université de La Rochelle)
António Horta Branco (University of Lisbon)
Bart Gajderowicz (University of Toronto)
Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Brenda Santana (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)
Brucce dos Santos (Computational Intelligence Laboratory (LABIC) - ICMC/USP)
Bruno Martins (IST & INESC-ID, University of Lisbon)
David Semedo (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
Dennis Aumiller (Cohere)
Dhruv Gupta (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Evelin Amorim (INESC TEC)
Sérgio Matos (University of Aveiro)
Florian Boudin (Nantes University)
Henrique Lopes Cardoso (LIACC & University of Porto)
Irina Rabaev (Shamoon College of Engineering)
Ismail Altingovde (Middle East Technical University)
Junbo Huang (University of Hamburg)
Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences)
João Paulo Cordeiro (Nova lincs & University of Beira Interior)
Jin Zhao (Brandeis University)
Luca Cagliero (Politecnico di Torino)
Ludovic Moncla (INSA Lyon)
Luis Filipe Cunha (INESC TEC & University of Minho)
Marc Finlayson (Florida International University)
Marc Spaniol (Université de Caen Normandie)
Moreno La Quatra (Kore University of Enna)
Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University)
Nuno Guimarães (INESC TEC & University of Porto)
Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora)
Paul Rayson (Lancaster University)
Purificação Silvano (CLUP & University of Porto)
Ross Purves (University of Zurich)
Sérgio Nunes (INESC TEC & University of Porto)
Sriharsh Bhyravajjula (University of Washington)
Udo Kruschwitz (University of Regensburg)
Valentina Bartalesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Yangyang Chen (Brandeis University)

++ Contacts ++
Website: https://text2story25.inesctec.pt/
For general inquiries regarding the workshop, reach the organizers at: text2story2025@easychair.org