@inproceedings{hatzel-biemann-2024-tell, title = {Tell Me Again! A Large-Scale Dataset of Multiple Summaries for the Same Story}, author = {Hatzel, Hans Ole and Biemann, Chris}, year = 2024, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)}, publisher = {ELRA and ICCL}, pages = {15732--15741}, url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1366/}, urldate = {2025-10-22}, editor = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and Kan, Min-Yen and Hoste, Veronique and Lenci, Alessandro and Sakti, Sakriani and Xue, Nianwen}, abstract = {A wide body of research is concerned with the semantics of narratives, both in terms of understanding narratives and generating fictional narratives and stories. We provide a dataset of summaries to be used as a proxy for entire stories or for the analysis of the summaries themselves. Our dataset consists of a total of 96,831 individual summaries across 29,505 stories. We intend for the dataset to be used for training and evaluation of embedding representations for stories, specifically the stories' narratives. The summary data is harvested from five different language versions of Wikipedia. Our dataset comes with rich metadata, which we extract from Wikidata, enabling a wide range of applications that operate on story summaries in conjunction with metadata. To set baseline results, we run retrieval experiments on the dataset, exploring the capability of similarity models in retrieving summaries of the same story. For this retrieval, a crucial element is to not place too much emphasis on the named entities, as this can enable retrieval of other summaries for the same work without taking the narrative into account.} } @inproceedings{piper2025evaluating, title = {Evaluating Large Language Models for Narrative Topic Labeling}, author = {Piper, Andrew and Wu, Sophie}, year = 2025, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {281--291}, doi = {10.18653/v1/2025.nlp4dh-1.25}, editor = {H{\"a}m{\"a}l{\"a}inen, Mika and {\"O}hman, Emily and Bizzoni, Yuri and Miyagawa, So and Alnajjar, Khalid} } @inproceedings{webson2022prompt, title = {Do Prompt-based Models Really Understand the Meaning of their Prompts?}, author = {Webson, Albert and Pavlick, Ellie}, year = 2022, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {2300--2344}, doi = {10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.167}, editor = {Carpuat, Marine and de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine and Meza Ruiz, Ivan Vladimir} } @inproceedings{lu2022fantastically, title = {Fantastically Ordered Prompts and Where to Find Them: Overcoming Few-Shot Prompt Order Sensitivity}, author = {Lu, Yao and Bartolo, Max and Moore, Alastair and Riedel, Sebastian and Stenetorp, Pontus}, year = 2022, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {8086--8098}, doi = {10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.556}, editor = {Muresan, Smaranda and Nakov, Preslav and Villavicencio, Aline} } @article{sclar2023quantifying, title = {Quantifying Language Models' Sensitivity to Spurious Features in Prompt Design or: How I learned to start worrying about prompt formatting}, author = {Sclar, Melanie and Choi, Yejin and Tsvetkov, Yulia and Suhr, Alane}, year = 2023, journal = {arXiv preprint}, doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2310.11324} } @inproceedings{reynolds2021prompt, title = {Prompt Programming for Large Language Models: Beyond the Few-shot Paradigm}, author = {Reynolds, Laria and McDonell, Kyle}, year = 2021, booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, pages = {1--7}, doi = {10.1145/3411763.3451760}, editor = {Yoshifumi Kitamura and Aaron Quigley and Katherine Isbister and Takeo Igarashi} } @inproceedings{zhou2024large, title = {Large Scale Narrative Messaging around Climate Change: A Cross-Cultural Comparison}, author = {Zhou, Haiqi and Hobson, David and Ruths, Derek and Piper, Andrew}, year = 2024, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change (ClimateNLP 2024)}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {143--155}, doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.climatenlp-1.11}, editor = {Stammbach, Dominik and Ni, Jingwei and Schimanski, Tobias and Dutia, Kalyan and Singh, Alok and Bingler, Julia and Christiaen, Christophe and Kushwaha, Neetu and Muccione, Veruska and A. Vaghefi, Saeid and Leippold, Markus} } @book{underwood2019distant, title = {Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change}, author = {Underwood, Ted}, year = 2019, publisher = {University of Chicago Press} } @misc{wikipedians, title = {Wikipedians}, author = {{Wikipedia Contributors}}, year = 2024, url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians}, urldate = {2024-10-22} } @article{vida2023values, title = {Values, Ethics, Morals? On the Use of Moral Concepts in NLP Research}, author = {Vida, Karina and Simon, Judith and Lauscher, Anne}, year = 2023, journal = {arXiv preprint}, doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2310.13915} } @article{dai2021joint, title = {A Joint Model for Structure-based News Genre Classification with Application to text Summarization}, author = {Dai, Zeyu and Huang, Ruihong}, year = 2021, journal = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {3332–-3342}, doi = {10.18653/v1/2021.findings-acl.295}, editor = {Zong, Chengqing and Xia, Fei and Li, Wenjie and Navigli, Roberto} } @article{frermann2023conflicts, title = {Conflicts, Villains, Resolutions: Towards Models of Narrative Media Framing}, author = {Frermann, Lea and Li, Jiatong and Khanehzar, Shima and Mikolajczak, Gosia}, year = 2023, journal = {arXiv preprint}, doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2306.02052} } @article{yan2023narrative, title = {Narrative Graph: Telling Evolving Stories Based on Event-centric Temporal Knowledge Graph}, author = {Yan, Zhihua and Tang, Xijin}, year = 2023, journal = {Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering}, number = 32, pages = {206--221}, doi = {10.1007/s11518-023-5561-0}, issue = 2 } @article{dundes1962etic, title = {From Etic to Emic Units in the Structural Study of Folktales}, author = {Dundes, Alan}, year = 1962, journal = {The Journal of American Folklore}, number = 75, pages = {95--105}, doi = {10.2307/538171}, issue = 296 } @book{berns2022self, title = {The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of how we Invent -- and Reinvent -- our Identities}, author = {Berns, Gregory}, year = 2022, publisher = {Basic Books} } @book{propp1968morphology, title = {Morphology of the Folktale}, author = {Propp, Vladimir}, year = 1968, publisher = {University of Texas Press}, origdate = 1928 } @techreport{brewer1980event, title = {Event Schemas, Story Schemas, and Story Grammars}, author = {Brewer, William F. and Lichtenstein, Edward H.}, year = 1980, note = {No. 197}, institution = {Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois} } @book{genette1992architext, title = {The Architext: An Introduction}, author = {Genette, G{\'e}rard}, year = 1992, publisher = {University of California Press} } @book{frye2020anatomy, title = {Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays}, author = {Frye, Northrop}, year = 2020, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, origdate = 1957 } @article{booth1998ethical, title = {Why Ethical Criticism can Never be Simple}, author = {Booth, Wayne C.}, year = 1998, journal = {Style}, number = 32, pages = {351--364}, url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/42946431}, urldate = {2025-10-22}, issue = 2 } @article{nussbaum1998exactly, title = {Exactly and Responsibly: A Defense of Ethical Criticism}, author = {Nussbaum, Martha Craven}, year = 1998, journal = {Philosophy and Literature}, publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press}, number = 22, pages = {343--365}, doi = {10.1353/phl.1998.0047}, issue = 2 } @book{cheah2015world, title = {What is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature}, author = {Cheah, Pheng}, year = 2015, publisher = {Duke University Press}, doi = {10.1215/9780822374534} } @inproceedings{pham2024topicgpt, title = {TopicGPT: A Prompt-based Topic Modeling Framework}, author = {Pham, Chau and Hoyle, Alexander and Sun, Simeng and Resnik, Philip and Iyyer, Mohit}, year = 2024, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {2956--2984}, doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-long.164}, editor = {Duh, Kevin and Gomez, Helena and Bethard, Steven} } @article{wojcik2023preface, title = {Preface: World Literature in an Expanding Digital Space}, author = {Fischer, Frank and Blakesley, Jacob and Wojcik, Paula and J{\"a}schke, Robert}, year = 2023, journal = {Journal of Cultural Analytics}, number = 8, doi = {10.22148/001c.74598}, issue = 2 } @misc{bamman2024wikiplots, title = {Wikiplots}, author = {Bamman, David}, year = 2024, url = {http://yosemite.ischool.berkeley.edu/david/wikiplots.txt}, urldate = {2025-10-22} } @misc{riedl2024wikiplots, title = {Wikiplots}, author = {Riedl, Mark}, year = 2024, url = {https://github.com/markriedl/WikiPlots}, urldate = {2025-10-22} } @inproceedings{hobson2024story, title = {Story Morals: Surfacing Value-driven Narrative Schemas Using Large Language Models}, author = {Hobson, David and Zhou, Haiqi and Ruths, Derek and Piper, Andrew}, year = 2024, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {12998--13032}, doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.723}, editor = {Al-Onaizan, Yaser and Bansal, Mohit and Chen, Yun-Nung} } @inproceedings{subbiah2024storysumm, title = {STORYSUMM: Evaluating Faithfulness in Story Summarization}, author = {Subbiah, Melanie and Ladhak, Faisal and Mishra, Akankshya and Adams, Griffin and Chilton, Lydia and Mckeown, Kathleen}, year = 2024, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {9988--10005}, doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.557}, editor = {Al-Onaizan, Yaser and Bansal, Mohit and Chen, Yun-Nung} } @article{zhang2024benchmarking, title = {Benchmarking Large Language Models for News Summarization}, author = {Zhang, Tianyi and Ladhak, Faisal and Durmus, Esin and Liang, Percy and Mckeown, Kathleen and Hashimoto, Tatsunori B}, year = 2024, journal = {Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics}, number = 11, pages = {39--57}, doi = {10.1162/tacl_a_00632} } @article{huang2023survey, title = {A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models: Principles, Taxonomy, Challenges, and Open Questions}, author = {Huang, Lei and Yu, Weijiang and Ma, Weitao and Zhong, Weihong and Feng, Zhangyin and Wang, Haotian and Chen, Qianglong and Peng, Weihua and Feng, Xiaocheng and Qin, Bing and others}, year = 2023, journal = {ACM Transactions on Information Systems}, publisher = {ACM New York, NY}, number = 43, doi = {10.1145/3703155}, issue = 2 } @inproceedings{scherrer2024evaluating, title = {Evaluating the Moral Beliefs Encoded in LLMs}, author = {Scherrer, Nino and Shi, Claudia and Feder, Amir and Blei, David}, year = 2023, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems}, number = 36, pages = {51778--51809} } @article{abdulhai2023moral, title = {Moral Foundations of Large Language Models}, author = {Abdulhai, Marwa and Serapio-Garcia, Gregory and Crepy, Cl{\'e}ment and Valter, Daria and Canny, John and Jaques, Natasha}, year = 2023, journal = {arXiv preprint}, doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2310.15337} } @inproceedings{liscio2022cross, title = {Cross-domain Classification of Moral Values}, author = {Liscio, Enrico and Dondera, Alin E and Geadau, Andrei and Jonker, Catholijn M. and Murukannaiah, Pradeep K.}, year = 2022, booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {2727--2745}, doi = {10.18653/v1/2022.findings-naacl.209}, editor = {Carpuat, Marine and de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine and Meza Ruiz, Ivan Vladimir} } @article{piper2015novel, title = {Novel Devotions: Conversional Reading, Computational Modeling, and the Modern Novel}, author = {Piper, Andrew}, year = 2015, journal = {New Literary History}, publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press}, number = 46, pages = {63--98}, url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/24542659}, urldate = {2025-10-22}, issue = 1 } @inproceedings{rezapour2019moral, title = {How do Moral Values Differ in Tweets on Social Movements?}, author = {Rezapour, Rezvaneh and Ferronato, Priscilla and Diesner, Jana}, year = 2019, booktitle = {Companion Publication of the 2019 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, pages = {347--351}, doi = {10.1145/3311957.3359496}, editor = {Eric Gilbert and Karrie Karahalios} } @inproceedings{roy2021analysis, title = {Analysis of Nuanced Stances and Sentiment Towards Entities of US Politicians Through the Lens of Moral Foundation Theory}, author = {Roy, Shamik and Goldwasser, Dan}, year = 2021, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {1--13}, doi = {10.18653/v1/2021.socialnlp-1.1}, editor = {Ku, Lun-Wei and Li, Cheng-Te} } @article{roy2023towards, title = {Towards Few-shot Identification of Morality Frames Using In-context Learning}, author = {Roy, Shamik and Nakshatri, Nishanth Sridhar and Goldwasser, Dan}, year = 2023, journal = {arXiv preprint}, doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2302.02029} } @incollection{kukkonen2014plot, title = {Plot}, author = {Kukkonen, Karin}, year = 2014, booktitle = {The Living Handbook of Narratology}, publisher = {Hamburg University}, url = {https://www-archiv.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/node/115.html}, urldate = {2025-10-22}, editor = {Peter H\"{u}hn and Jan-Christoph Meister and John Pier and Wolf Schmid} } @article{gregory2010redefining, title = {Redefining Ethical Criticism. The Old vs. the New}, author = {Gregory, Marshall W.}, year = 2010, journal = {Journal of Literary Theory}, number = 4, pages = {273--301}, doi = {10.1515/jlt.2010.017}, issue = 2 } @inproceedings{anantharama2022canarex, title = {Canarex: Contextually Aware Narrative Extraction for Semantically Rich Text-as-data Applications}, author = {Anantharama, Nandini and Angus, Simon and O'Neill, Lachlan}, year = 2022, booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {3551--3564}, doi = {10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.260}, editor = {Goldberg, Yoav and Kozareva, Zornitsa and Zhang, Yue} } @article{rashkin2020plotmachines, title = {PlotMachines: Outline-conditioned Generation with Dynamic Plot State Tracking}, author = {Rashkin, Hannah and Celikyilmaz, Asli and Choi, Yejin and Gao, Jianfeng}, year = 2020, journal = {arXiv preprint}, doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2004.14967} } @inproceedings{karsdorp2013identifying, title = {Identifying Motifs in Folktales Using Topic Models}, author = {Karsdorp, F. B. and van den Bosch, A.}, year = 2013, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22 Annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning}, pages = {41--49}, url = {https://benelearn2013.org/pdfs/paper_28.pdf}, urldate = {2025-10-22} } @article{wilkens2016genre, title = {Genre, Computation, and the Varieties of Twentieth-century US Fiction}, author = {Wilkens, Matthew}, year = 2016, journal = {Journal of Cultural Analytics}, number = 2, doi = {10.22148/16.009}, issue = 2 } @article{kundalia2020multi, title = {Multi-label Movie Genre Detection from a Movie Poster Using Knowledge Transfer Learning}, author = {Kundalia, Kaushil and Patel, Yash and Shah, Manan}, year = 2020, journal = {Augmented Human Research}, publisher = {Springer}, number = 5, pages = {1--9}, doi = {10.1007/s41133-019-0029-y} } @inproceedings{sims2019literary, title = {Literary Event Detection}, author = {Sims, Matthew and Park, Jong Ho and Bamman, David}, year = 2019, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {3623--3634}, doi = {10.18653/v1/P19-1353}, editor = {Korhonen, Anna and Traum, David and M{\`a}rquez, Llu{\'i}s} } @article{fudolig2023decomposition, title = {A Decomposition of Book Structure Through Ousiometric Fluctuations in Cumulative Word-time}, author = {Fudolig, Mikaela Irene and Alshaabi, Thayer and Cramer, Kathryn and Danforth, Christopher M. and Dodds, Peter Sheridan}, year = 2023, journal = {Humanities and Social Sciences Communications}, publisher = {Palgrave}, number = 10, doi = {10.1057/s41599-023-01680-4}, issue = 187 } @inproceedings{chambers2009unsupervised, title = {Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Schemas and their Participants}, author = {Chambers, Nathanael and Jurafsky, Dan}, year = 2009, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {602--610} } @inproceedings{vauth2021automated, title = {Automated Event Annotation in Literary Texts}, author = {Vauth, Michael and Hatzel, Hans Ole and Gius, Evelyn and Biemann, Chris}, year = 2021, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2021}, pages = {333--345}, editor = {Ehrmann, Maud and Karsdorp, Folgert and Wevers, Melvin and Andrews, Tara Lee and Burghardt, Manuel and Kestemont, Mike and Manjavacas, Enrique and Piotrowski, Michael and van Zundert, Joris}, %publisher = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings} } @article{reagan2016emotional, title = {The Emotional Arcs of Stories are Dominated by six Basic Shapes}, author = {Reagan, Andrew J and Mitchell, Lewis and Kiley, Dilan and Danforth, Christopher M and Dodds, Peter Sheridan}, year = 2016, journal = {EPJ Data Science}, publisher = {Springer}, number = 5, pages = {1--12}, doi = {10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0093-1}, issue = 1 } @book{campbell2008hero, title = {The Hero with a Thousand Faces}, author = {Campbell, Joseph}, year = 2008, publisher = {New World Library}, origdate = 1949 } @book{thompson1955motif, title = {Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folk Tales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends}, author = {Thompson, Stith}, year = 1955, publisher = {Indiana University Press}, volume = 4 } @article{russell1992changing, title = {Changing Narrative Schemas in Psychotherapy}, author = {Russell, Robert L and Van Den Broek, Paul}, year = 1992, journal = {Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training}, publisher = {Division of Psychotherapy (29), American Psychological Association}, number = 29, pages = {344--354}, doi = {10.1037/h0088536}, issue = 3 } @inproceedings{ouyang2015modeling, title = {Modeling Reportable Events as Turning Points in Narrative}, author = {Ouyang, Jessica and McKeown, Kathleen}, year = 2015, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {2149--2158}, doi = {10.18653/v1/D15-1257}, editor = {M{\`a}rquez, Llu{\'i}s and Callison-Burch, Chris and Su, Jian} } @inproceedings{wu-2023-cross, title = {Cross-Cultural Analysis of Human Values, Morals, and Biases in Folk Tales}, author = {Wu, Winston and Wang, Lu and Mihalcea, Rada}, year = 2023, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {5113--5125}, doi = {10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.311}, editor = {Bouamor, Houda and Pino, Juan and Bali, Kalika}, abstract = {Folk tales are strong cultural and social influences in children{'}s lives, and they are known to teach morals and values. However, existing studies on folk tales are largely limited to European tales. In our study, we compile a large corpus of over 1,900 tales originating from 27 diverse cultures across six continents. Using a range of lexicons and correlation analyses, we examine how human values, morals, and gender biases are expressed in folk tales across cultures. We discover differences between cultures in prevalent values and morals, as well as cross-cultural trends in problematic gender biases. Furthermore, we find trends of reduced value expression when examining public-domain fiction stories, extrinsically validate our analyses against the multicultural Schwartz Survey of Cultural Values and the Global Gender Gap Report, and find traditional gender biases associated with values, morals, and agency. This large-scale cross-cultural study of folk tales paves the way towards future studies on how literature influences and reflects cultural norms.} } @incollection{mft, title = {Chapter Two - Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism}, author = {Jesse Graham and Jonathan Haidt and Sena Koleva and Matt Motyl and Ravi Iyer and Sean P. Wojcik and Peter H. Ditto}, year = 2013, booktitle = {Advances in Experimental Social Psychology}, publisher = {Academic Press}, volume = 47, pages = {55--30}, doi = {10.1016/B978-0-12-407236-7.00002-4}, editor = {Patricia Devine and Ashby Plant}, keywords = {Morality, Nativism, Cultural learning, Intuition, Pluralism, Method-theory coevolution}, abstract = {Where does morality come from? Why are moral judgments often so similar across cultures, yet sometimes so variable? Is morality one thing, or many? Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) was created to answer these questions. In this chapter, we describe the origins, assumptions, and current conceptualization of the theory and detail the empirical findings that MFT has made possible, both within social psychology and beyond. Looking toward the future, we embrace several critiques of the theory and specify five criteria for determining what should be considered a foundation of human morality. Finally, we suggest a variety of future directions for MFT and moral psychology.} }