Program

Thursday, August 1, 2019

08:45–09:00Opening Remarks
 Morning Session 1
09:00–10:00Invited Talk
Automated Assistance for Story Writing: Exploring a New Generation Paradigm
Melissa Roemmele
10:00–10:30Composing a Picture Book by Automatic Story Understanding and Visualization
Xiaoyu Qi, Ruihua Song, Chunting Wang, Jin Zhou and Tetsuya Sakai
10:30–11:00Morning 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
11:30–12:00Using Functional Schemas to Understand Social Media Narratives
Xinru Yan, Aakanksha Naik, Yohan Jo and Carolyn Rose
12:00–12:30A Hybrid Model for Globally Coherent Story Generation
Fangzhou Zhai, Vera Demberg, Pavel Shkadzko, Wei Shi and Asad Sayeed
12:30–14:00Lunch
 Afternoon Session
14:00–14:30Guided Neural Language Generation for Automated Storytelling
Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Ethan Tien, Wesley Cheung, Zhaochen Luo, William Ma, Lara Martin and Mark Riedl
14:30–15:00An Analysis of Emotion Communication Channels in Fan-Fiction: Towards Emotional Storytelling
Evgeny Kim and Roman Klinger
15:00–15:30Poster Lightning Talks
15:30–16:00Afternoon Break
16:00–17:30Poster 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
17:30–17:45Closing Remarks