CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2013) 4-6 August 2013 Universitaet Hamburg, Germany http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws13/ (a satellite workshop of CogSci 2013: The 35th meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Berlin, Germany, 31 July - 3 August 2013) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Richard Gerrig, Stony Brook University, U.S.A. Inderjeet Mani, Chiang Mai, Thailand Important Dates: 15 July 2013. On-line registration closes. 31 July - 3 August 2013. CogSci 2013 in Berlin. 4-6 August 2013. Workshop in Hamburg. Workshop Aims Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. We use them to communicate, convince, explain, and entertain. As far as we know, every society in the world has narratives, which suggests they are rooted in our psychology and serve an important cognitive function. It is becoming increasingly clear that, to truly understand and explain human intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand why and to what extent narrative is universal and explain (or explain away) the function it serves. The aim of this workshop series is to address key questions that advance our understanding of narrative and our ability to model it computationally. Special Focus: Cognitive Science This workshop will be an appropriate venue for papers addressing fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative. The workshop will be held as a satellite event of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (to be held in Berlin 31st July - 3rd August), and will have a special focus on the cognitive science of narrative. Although the workshop hosts papers that treat issues fundamental to the computational modeling and scientific understanding of narrative, this year we have a focus on narrative's cognitive, linguistic, or philosophical aspects. Both finished research and more tentative exploratory work will be presented. Proceedings Papers will be published in an electronic proceedings volume in the series OASIcs (Open Access Series in Informatics, Schloss Dagstuhl). Prizes The prize for the best student paper will be awarded to Graham Sack for his paper "Character Networks for Narrative Generation: Structural Balance Theory and the Emergence of Proto-Narratives". The prize for the best student paper on a cognitive science topic will be awarded to Angela Nyhout for her paper "Constructing spatial representations from narratives and non-narrative descriptions: Evidence from 7-year-olds". PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (Friday, 2 August 2013) 10:30-12:10 Pre-Workshop Event: CMN@CogSci Symposium "Computational and Cognitive Aspects of Narrative" as part of CogSci 2013 Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin Sunday, 4 August 2013 09:30-10:10 Registration 10:10-10:30 Opening with words by the two Deans of the Faculties 10:30-11:30 Richard Gerrig, Stony Brook University, USA: A Participatory Perspective on the Experience of Narrative Worlds 11:30-11:50 Break 11:50-12:10 Mehul Bhatt, Jakob Suchan and Carl Schultz: Cognitive Interpretation of Everyday Activities - Toward Perceptual Narrative Based Visuo-Spatial Scene Interpretation 12:10-12:30 Greg Lessard and Michael Levison: Narrative and Ethics 12:30-14:30 Lunch break 14:30-15:00 Charlotte Vlek, Henry Prakken, Silja Renooij and Bart Verheij: Representing and Evaluating Legal Narratives with Subscenarios in a Bayesian Network 15:00-15:30 Rossana Damiano and Antonio Lieto: Ontological representations of narratives: a case study on stories and actions 15:30-16:00 Break 16:00-16:30 Elektra Kypridemou and Loizos Michael: Narrative Similarity as Common Summary 16:30-16:50 Deborah Ninan and Odetunji Odejobi: Theoretical Issues in the Computational Modelling of Yoruba Narratives 16:50-17:20 Break 17:20-17:50 Moshe Shoshan: Narrativity And Textuality In The Study Of Stories 17:50-18:00 Special presentation: The Think Tank 19:30-22:30 Conference Dinner Monday, 5 August 2013 10:10-10:40 Alan Tapscott, Joaquim Colas, Ayman Moghnieh and Josep Blat: Writing Consistent Stories based on Structured Multi-Authored Narrative Spaces 10:40-11:10 Kenji Sagae, Andrew S. Gordon, Morteza Dehghani, Mike Metke, Jackie S. Kim, Sarah I. Gimbel, Christine Tipper, Jonas Kaplan and Mary Helen Immordino-Yang: A Data-Driven Approach for Classification of Subjectivity in Personal Narratives 11:10-11:30 Break 11:30-12:00 Nir Ofek, Sandor Daranyi and Lior Rokach: Linking Motif Sequences to Tale Type Families by Machine Learning 12:00-12:30 Erica Cosentino, Ines Adornetti and Francesco Ferretti: Processing Narrative Coherence: Towards a top-down model of discourse 12:30-14:30 Lunch break 14:30-14:50 Andrea Bolioli, Matteo Casu, Maurizio Lana and Renato Roda: Exploring the Betrothed Lovers 14:50-15:10 Bernhard Fisseni and Faith Lawrence: A Paradigm for Eliciting Story Variation 15:10-15:30 David Broniatowski and Valerie Reyna: Gist and Verbatim in Narrative Memory 15:30-16:30 Afternoon free discussion time 16:30-17:00 Mariet Theune, Thijs Alofs, Jeroen Linssen and Ivo Swartjes: Having one's cake and eating it too: Coherence of children's emergent narratives 17:00-17:30 Angela Nyhout and Daniela O'Neill: Constructing spatial representations from narratives and non-narrative descriptions: Evidence from 7-year-olds 17:30-17:50 Break 17:50-18:10 Fritz Breithaupt, Kevin Gardner and John Kruschke: The disappearance of moral choice in serially reproduced narratives 18:10-18:30 Khiet Truong, Gerben Westerhof, Sanne Lamers and Franciska de Jong: Emotional expression in oral history narratives: Comparing results of automated verbal and nonverbal analyses 18:30-18:50 Bernhard Fisseni, Aadil Kurji, Deniz Sarikaya and Mira Viehstaedt: Story Comparisons: Evidence from Film Reviews Tuesday, 6 August 2013 10:10-10:40 Steven Corman, Hunter Ball and Gene Brewer: Assessing Two-Mode Semantic Network Story Representations Using a False Memory Paradigm 10:40-11:10 Graham Sack: Character Networks for Narrative Generation: Structural Balance Theory and the Emergence of Proto-Narratives 11:10-11:30 Break 11:30-12:00 Nicolas Szilas and Urs Richle: A computational model of dramatic tension for interactive narrative 12:00-12:30 Julio Bahamon and R. Michael Young: CB-POCL: A Choice-Based Algorithm for Character Personality in Planning-based Narrative Generation 12:30-14:30 Lunch break 14:30-15:00 Antoine Saillenfest and Jean-Louis Dessalles: Using Unexpected Simplicity to Control Moral Judgments and Interest in Narratives 15:00-15:20 D. Fox Harrell, Dominic Kao and Chong-U Lim: Computationally Modeling Narratives of Social Group Membership with the Chimeria System 15:20-15:40 Break 15:40-16:10 Sigal Sina, Sarit Kraus and Avi Rosenfeld: Social Narrative Adaptation using Crowdsourcing 16:10-16:40 Pablo Gervas: Propp's Morphology of the Folk Tale as a Grammar for Generation 16:40-17:00 Break 17:00-18:00 Inderjeet Mani, Yahoo! Labs, USA: Plots as Summaries of Event Chains Programme Committee: Rossana Damiano, Kerstin Dautenhahn, David K. Elson, Mark Finlayson (co-chair), Pablo Gervas, Andrew S. Gordon, Valerie G. Hardcastle, Patrik Haslum, Benedikt Loewe (co-chair), Jan Christoph Meister, Peggy J. Miller, Erik T. Mueller, Livia Polanyi, Marie-Laure Ryan, Timothy Tangherlini, Mariet Theune, Emmett Tomai, Atif Waraich, Patrick Henry Winston, R. Michael Young. Organizers: Mark A. Finlayson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.), Bernhard Fisseni (Universitaet Hamburg & Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Benedikt Loewe (Universitaet Hamburg, Germany & Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Jan Christoph Meister (Universitaet Hamburg, Germany).