Text2Story 2026
Ninth Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Texts

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 19 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 14 papers were accepted for this volume, 6 as full papers and 8 as short papers.

Keynote Speakers

• Knowledge Extraction from Fiction Using Generative Large Language Models and Multilingual Semantic Parsing
  Federico Pianzola
• Evaluating Generative AI and Agentic Systems: Methodologies for Systematic Assessment and Continuous Improvement
  Arian Pasquali

Full Papers

• Agenda-based Narrative Extraction: Steering Pathfinding Algorithms with Large Language Models Brian Felipe Keith-Norambuena , Carolina Inés Rojas-Córdova , Claudio Juvenal Meneses-Villegas , Elizabeth Johanna Lam-Esquenazi , Angélica María Flores-Bustos , Ignacio Alejandro Molina-Villablanca , Joshua Emanuel Leyton-Vallejos
• Symbolic Framing Meets Diffusion Modeling: How Tariff Narratives Spread on Social Media Nitin Agarwal , Bishwa Prakash Subedi
• A Multi-Domain Red Teaming Framework for Safety, Robustness, and Fairness Evaluation of Medical Large Language Models Andrei Marian Feier , Veysel Kocaman , Yigit Gul , Ahmet Korkmaz , Alexander Thomas , Aleksei Zakharov , Jay Gil , Mehmet Butgul , David Talby
• Semantic Interaction for Narrative Map Sensemaking: An Insight-based Evaluation Brian Felipe Keith-Norambuena , Fausto German , Eric Krokos , Sarah Joseph , Chris North
• Following Socio-Environmental Conflict Narratives About Energy Transition in Chile: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis Using Dynamic Topic Modeling Jonas Rieger , Felipe Muñoz , Lars Grönberg , Kai-Robin Lange , Iván Ojeda-Pereira , Darío Briceño , Christian Nass , Carsten Stahl , José Cassola , Carolina Rojas-Córdova , Brian Keith-Norambuena , Marcelo Lufin , Fernando Campos-Medina , Sebastián Herrera-León
• Narrative Similarity Detection Using Character Roles Alexandra Barancová , Giovanni Sileno

Short Papers

• Hallucination or Creativity: How to Evaluate AI-Generated Scientific Stories? Alex Argese , Pasquale Lisena Raphael Troncy
• Evaluating Large Language Models for Character Identification in Italian Renaissance Epics Gaudenzia Genoni , Alfio Ferrara , Stefano Montanelli
• Structural Patterns in Award-Winning Novellas Milka Kaplan , Armin Shmilovici , Mark Last
• Dynamic Participatory Game Design with Local AI: From Interviews to Trauma-Aware Interactive Narratives Kseniia Harshina , Tom Tucek , Mathias Lux
• Zero Prompting Segmentation of Movie Dialogues into Narrative Units José Luis López Calle , Pablo Gervás
• Rethinking TRIZ for AI-Driven Narrative Generation Cosimo Palma , Bertrand Jager
• Collapsing Distance: The Curse of Ground Truth in Computational Narrative Understanding Junbo Huang , Ricardo Usbeck
• Narrative-Aware Domain Knowledge Integration for Annotation-Free Medical Image Localisation Tahsir Ahmed Munna , Nuno Guimarães , Alípio Jorge