26-28 May 2015
Atlanta GA, U.S.A.
CMN 2015 Sixth International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative Special Focus: Cognitive Systems and Computational Narrative Co-located with: The Third Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS 2015) May 26-28, 2015, Tech Square Research Building, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/cmn15 Workshop Aims Narrative provides a framing structure for understanding, communicating, influencing, and organizing human experience. Systems for its analysis and production are increasingly found embedded in devices and processes, influencing decision-making in venues as diverse as politics, economics, intelligence, and cultural production. In order to appreciate this influence, it is becoming increasingly clear that research must address the technical implementation of narrative systems, the theoretical bases of these frameworks, and our general understanding of narrative at multiple levels: from the psychological and cognitive impact of narratives to our ability to model narrative responses computationally. Special Focus: Cognitive Systems This inter-disciplinary workshop will be an appropriate venue for papers addressing fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative. Papers should be relevant to issues fundamental to the computational modeling and scientific understanding of narrative. The workshop will have a special focus on the building cognitive systems that are distinguished by a focus on high-level cognition and decision making, reliance on rich, structured representations, a systems-level perspective, use of heuristics to handle complexity, and incorporation of insights about human thinking, meaning we especially welcome papers relevant to the cognitive aspects of narrative. Illustrative Topics and Questions * How is narrative knowledge captured and represented? * How are narratives indexed and retrieved? Is there a universal scheme for encoding episodic information? * How can we study narrative from a cognitive point of view? * Can narrative be subsumed by current models of higher-level cognition, or does it require new approaches? * How do narratives mediate our cognitive experiences, or affect our cognitive abilities? * What comprises the set of possible narrative arcs? Is there such a set? * How many possible story lines are there? * Is narrative structure universal, or are there systematic differences in narratives from different cultures? * What makes narrative different from a list of events or facts? * How do conceptions and models of spatiality or temporality influence narrative and cognitive systems? * What are the details of the relationship between narrative and common sense? * What shared resources are required for the computational study of narrative? What should a Story Bank contain? * What shared resources and tools are available, or how can already-extant resources be adapted to the study of narrative? * What are appropriate formal or computational representations for narrative? * How should we evaluate computational and formal models of narrative? * How can narrative systems be applied to problem-solving? * What aspects of cross-linguistic work has narrative research neglected? Important DATES February 2, 2015 Submission deadline March 6, 2015 Notification of Acceptance 30 March 2015 Final version due May 26 - 28, 2015 CMN Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia May 29-31, 2015 Advances in Cognitive Systems Conference (ACS 2015) Types of Submissions Long Papers (up to 16 pages, plus up to 2 pages of references) Short Papers (up to 8 pages, plus up to 2 pages of references) Position Papers (up to 4 pages, plus up to 1 page of references) Submission Formats. CMN 2015 papers may be submitted in either of two formats: LaTeX Papers should be prepared using the standard OASIcs template, using A4 paper. All final papers (i.e., post-review papers) must be submitted in this format. Important: Papers may be submitted in MS Word format only for review. If the paper is accepted, the authors will be reponsible for transferring their content to the LaTeX format. Papers submitted for review not in either of these two formats will be returned. Final papers not submitted in LaTeX format will also be returned. Papers should be submitted to the CMN workshop Easychair website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmn15 Invited Speaker Janet H. Murray, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Organizers Mark A. Finlayson (Florida International University, USA) Antonio Lieto, (University of Torino and ICAR CNR, Italy) Ben Miller (Georgia State University, USA) Remi Ronfard (Inria, LJK, University of Grenoble, France) Program Comittee Floris Bex, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana University, USA Mehul Bhatt, University of Bremen, Germany Neil Cohn, University of California, USA Rossana Damiano, University of Torino, Italy Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom David K. Elson, Google, USA Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Richard Gerrig, SUNY Stony Brook, USA Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies, USA Ken Kishida, Virginia Tech, USA Benedikt Löwe, University of Hamburg, Germany and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Chris Meister, University of Hamburg, Germany Erik T. Mueller, IBM, USA Livia Polanyi, Stanford University, USA Marie-Laure Ryan, USA Moshe Shoshan, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Timothy Tangherlini, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Mariët Theune, University of Twente, The Netherlands Emmet Tomai, PanAm, USA Patrick Henry Winston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA