Narrative Analysis

Narrative analysis focuses on understanding how narratives are structured, interpreted, and generated, aiming to computationally model aspects of storytelling and human comprehension. Current research emphasizes developing methods to automatically identify key narrative elements like character decisions and plot points, often leveraging large language models and graph neural networks to analyze textual and visual data, and employing techniques like knowledge graph grounding to improve reasoning capabilities. These advancements have implications for various fields, including improving the performance of AI systems in tasks requiring narrative understanding and facilitating more rigorous analysis of human storytelling across diverse media.