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          IJCAI-ECAI Workshop
  Semantic Techniques for Narrative-based
              Understanding


                             July 24, 2022
                           Vienna, Austria




Editors
Lise Stork (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Katrien Beuls (Université de Namur)
Luc Steels (Venice International University)




                           https://www.muhai.org




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Preface
This workshop explored how AI systems can employ narratives in the realization of
human-centric AI. Human-centric AI focuses on collaborating with humans, enhancing
human capabilities, and empowering humans to better achieve their goals. This re-
quires that we complement the reactive intelligence of today’s neuro-statistical machine
learning with deliberative intelligence based on rich models of the problem situation:
computational representations of narratives, elaborate ontologies, fine-grained seman-
tic parsing inspired by cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, reasoning and
inference, mental simulation, the consultation of semantic resources such as knowledge
graphs and episodic memories of past situations, and a control architecture that can
flexibly combine all these knowledge sources to arrive at coherent understanding.
Besides technical contributions to realize the components needed for understanding, we
encouraged the presentation of benchmarks as well as demonstrations of AI systems
in which narrative-based understanding plays a critical role, such as the decoding and
execution of actions needed for everyday activities (e.g. to cook a dish from a recipe),
the reconstruction of the temporal and causal relations found in documents (e.g. be-
tween historical events leading up to a significant political change), or the formulation
of ‘scientific storylines’ in knowledge discovery that combine information across different
scientific papers to generate hypotheses or compare and validate experimental evidence.


Invited talks
Representing Narratives in Digital Libraries: The Narrative Ontology (Carlo Meghini)
The Art of Binding: Making Narrative Overlays Plausible (Hermann Kroll)


Poster presentations
Transient Narrative Networks and Information Landscapes for Enhancing Human Un-
derstanding (Remi van Trijp)
Narrative Objects (Mihai Pomarlan and Robert Porzel)
Explain Your Clusters with Words. The Role of Metadata in Interactive Clustering
(Maciej Mozolewski, Samaneh Jamshidi, Szymon Bobek and Grzegorz J. Nalepa)
Hybrid Procedural Semantics for Visual Dialogue: An Interactive Web Demonstration
(Lara Verheyen, Jérôme Botoko Ekila, Jens Nevens, Paul Van Eecke and Katrien Beuls)
Building a French Revolution Narrative from Wikidata (Inès Blin)
Towards Conflictual Narrative Mechanics (Laura Spillner, Carlo Santagiustina, Thomas
Mildner and Robert Porzel)




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Detecting Traces of Narrative Evolution on Telegram: Inductive Methods from Corpus-
Based Discourse Analysis (Tom Willaert)
An Experiment in Measuring Understanding(Luc Steels, Lara Verheyen and Remi van
Trijp)




This workshop took place on July 24, 2022 in Vienna (Austria). We are truly grateful
to the IJCAI-ECAI workshop chairs for their help in the organization of this event. We
are greatly indebted to the scientific committee for their reviews and suggestions for
improving the accepted contributions.



                                                                           Lise Stork
                                                                        Katrien Beuls
                                                                           Luc Steels




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Organising Committee
   Lise Stork (Free University of Amsterdam, NL)
   Katrien Beuls (University of Namur, BE)
   Luc Steels (Venice International University, IT)


Scientific Committee
   Robert Porzel (University of Bremen, DE)
   Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam, NL)
   Paul Van Eecke (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE)
   Remi van Trijp (Sony Computer Science Laboratories Paris, FR)
   Piek Vossen (Free University of Amsterdam, NL)
   Alipio M. Jorge (University of Porto, PT)
   Nancy Chang (Google, Mountain View, USA)




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