I am delighted to announce a new lab initiative that is building a citizen science platform to annotate stories. We’re calling it Citizen Readers and the aim of the platform is to invite readers from around the world to help us better understand storytelling. While …
Very excited to announce a new student-led paper out in the ACL Proceedings as part of the SIGHUM workshop. The project was designed and carried out by Sil Hamilton, MA student in Digital Humanities at McGill, and provides a great insight into how we can …
Excited to announce the release of a new data set curated by my lab. Special thanks go to Joey Love and Eve Kraicer for their work in helping bring this to fruition. This dataset includes derived data on a collection of ca. 2,700 books in …
I’ll be giving a keynote address to the 4th Workshop on Narrative Understanding at this year‘s NAACL conference. I’m pasting in the abstract below. The motivation behind the talk is that there has been a lot of interesting work over the years exploring how to …
One of the principal reasons we tell stories is to explain why something happened. A story consists of the recounting of a series of events. The causes of those events are often attached to different agents, either more or less explicitly. Narrative is a powerful …
Our lab has a new article out that will be appearing in the Computational Humanities Research Conference Proceedings (CHR 2021). In this project, we develop computational methods for measuring the degree of narrativity in over 335,000 text passages distributed across two- to three-hundred years of …
I have a new piece out with co-authors David Bamman and Richard Jean So in the forthcoming proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference. Our goal in the paper is to provide NLP researchers with a clear theoretical framework to computationally …