Narrative Structure

Narrative structure research focuses on understanding and computationally modeling how stories are constructed and interpreted, aiming to improve automated story generation and analysis. Current research employs large language models (LLMs) and various graph-based approaches to analyze narrative elements like character roles, plot arcs, and emotional trajectories across diverse media (e.g., books, news articles, films). This work has implications for fields like computational creativity, social science research (e.g., analyzing online communities), and information retrieval, offering tools for quantifying and comparing narrative structures across different texts and cultures.