Program
Thursday, August 1, 2019 | |
| 08:45–09:00 | Opening Remarks |
| Morning Session 1 | |
| 09:00–10:00 | Invited Talk Automated Assistance for Story Writing: Exploring a New Generation Paradigm Melissa Roemmele |
| 10:00–10:30 | Composing a Picture Book by Automatic Story Understanding and Visualization Xiaoyu Qi, Ruihua Song, Chunting Wang, Jin Zhou and Tetsuya Sakai |
| 10:30–11:00 | Morning Break |
| Morning Session 2 | |
| 11:00–11:30 | "My Way of Telling a Story": Persona based Grounded Story Generation Khyathi Chandu, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Ruslan Salakhutdinov and Alan W Black |
| 11:30–12:00 | Using Functional Schemas to Understand Social Media Narratives Xinru Yan, Aakanksha Naik, Yohan Jo and Carolyn Rose |
| 12:00–12:30 | A Hybrid Model for Globally Coherent Story Generation Fangzhou Zhai, Vera Demberg, Pavel Shkadzko, Wei Shi and Asad Sayeed |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch |
| Afternoon Session | |
| 14:00–14:30 | Guided Neural Language Generation for Automated Storytelling Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Ethan Tien, Wesley Cheung, Zhaochen Luo, William Ma, Lara Martin and Mark Riedl |
| 14:30–15:00 | An Analysis of Emotion Communication Channels in Fan-Fiction: Towards Emotional Storytelling Evgeny Kim and Roman Klinger |
| 15:00–15:30 | Poster Lightning Talks |
| 15:30–16:00 | Afternoon Break |
| 16:00–17:30 | Poster Session |
| Adversarial Generation and Encoding of Nested Texts (Non-Archival) Alon Rozental | |
| Narrative Generation in the Wild: Methods from NaNoGenMo Judith van Stegeren and Mariët Theune | |
| Lexical concreteness in narrative Michael Flor and Swapna Somasundaran | |
| A Simple Approach to Classify Fictional and Non-Fictional Genres Mohammed Rameez Qureshi, Sidharth Ranjan, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar and Kushal Shah | |
| DREAMT - Embodied Motivational Conversational Storytelling (Non-Archival) David Powers | |
| Detecting Everyday Scenarios in Narrative Texts Lilian Diana Awuor Wanzare, Michael Roth and Manfred Pinkal | |
| Personality Traits Recognition in Literary Texts Daniele Pizzolli and Carlo Strapparava | |
| Winter is here: Summarizing Twitter Streams related to Pre-Scheduled Events Anietie Andy, Derry Tanti Wijaya and Chris Callison-Burch | |
| WriterForcing: Generating more interesting story endings Prakhar Gupta, Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar, Mukul Bhutani and Alan Black | |
| Prediction of a Movie’s Success From Plot Summaries Using Deep Learning Models You Jin Kim, Yun Gyung Cheong and Jung Hoon Lee | |
| Character-Centric Storytelling (Non-Archival) Aditya Surikuchi and Jorma Laaksonen | |
| 17:30–17:45 | Closing Remarks |