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First Workshop on Storytelling

Workshop PROGRAM

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

10:00–10:10Opening Remarks
10:15–11:00Invited Keynote Talk by Nasrin Mostafazadeh: Eventful Context Modeling: The Case of Story Comprehension and Story Generation
11:00–11:25Learning to Listen: Critically Considering the Role of AI in Human Storytelling and Character Creation
Anna Kasunic and Geoff Kaufman
11:25–11:50 Invited Talk: Creative Writing with a Machine in the Loop: Case Studies on Stories and Slogans
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Elizabeth Clark, Anne Spencer Ross, Chenhao Tan, Yangfeng Ji, and Noah A. Smith.
11:50–13:45Lunch
13:45–14:10A Pipeline for Creative Visual Storytelling
Stephanie Lukin, Reginald Hobbs and Clare Voss
14:10–14:35Telling Stories with Soundtracks: An Empirical Analysis of Music in Film
Jon Gillick and David Bamman
14:35–15:00Towards Controllable Story Generation
Nanyun Peng, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Jonathan May and Kevin Knight
15:00–15:20Break
15:20–16:25

Visual Storytelling Challenge Presentations

16:25–16:50Neural Event Extraction from Movies Description
Alex Tozzo, Dejan Jovanovic and Mohamed Amer
16:50–17:00Closing Remarks
The following two papers were accepted by the First Workshop on Storytelling, but the authors can't present in the workshop due to unexpected issues.
  1. Linguistic Features of Helpfulness in Automated Support for Creative Writing, Melissa Roemmele and Andrew Gordon
  2. An Encoder-decoder Approach to Predicting Causal Relations in Stories, Melissa Roemmele and Andrew Gordon