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# Workshop on Narrative Understanding 2021 — accepted papers

Workshop on Narrative Understanding 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Workshop on Narrative Understanding, held in Virtual, June 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 10 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Virtual · 🗓 June 2021

[**10** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nuse/2021/#works) · [**448** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nuse/2021/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Gender and Representation Bias in GPT-3 Generated Stories](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lucy-2021-gender-representation-bias-gpt-3/)**Li Lucy, David Bamman*284 citations · our summary*
2. **[Automatic Story Generation: Challenges and Attempts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alabdulkarim-2021-automatic-story-generation-challenges-attempts/)**Amal Alabdulkarim, Siyan Li, Xiangyu Peng*40 citations · our summary*
3. **[Document-level Event Extraction with Efficient End-to-end Learning of Cross-event Dependencies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.4/)**Kung-Hsiang Huang, Nanyun Peng*27 citations*
4. **[Plug-and-Blend: A Framework for Controllable Story Generation with Blended Control Codes ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.7/)**Zhiyu Lin, Mark Riedl*17 citations*
5. **[FanfictionNLP: A Text Processing Pipeline for Fanfiction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.2/)**Michael Yoder, Sopan Khosla, Qinlan Shen et al.*12 citations*
6. **[Fabula Entropy Indexing: Objective Measures of Story Coherence ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.9/)**Louis Castricato, Spencer Frazier, Jonathan Balloch et al.*9 citations*
7. **[Towards a Model-Theoretic View of Narratives ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.10/)**Louis Castricato, Stella Biderman, David Thue et al.*5 citations*
8. **[Hierarchical Encoders for Modeling and Interpreting Screenplays ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.1/)**Gayatri Bhat, Avneesh Saluja, Melody Dye et al.*4 citations*
9. **[Transformer-based Screenplay Summarization Using Augmented Learning Representation with Dialogue Information ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.6/)**Myungji Lee, Hongseok Kwon, Jaehun Shin et al.*4 citations*

## All accepted papers (10)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Gender and Representation Bias in GPT-3 Generated Stories](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lucy-2021-gender-representation-bias-gpt-3/)**Li Lucy, David Bamman*284 citations · our summary*
2. **[Automatic Story Generation: Challenges and Attempts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alabdulkarim-2021-automatic-story-generation-challenges-attempts/)**Amal Alabdulkarim, Siyan Li, Xiangyu Peng*40 citations · our summary*
3. **[Document-level Event Extraction with Efficient End-to-end Learning of Cross-event Dependencies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.4/)**Kung-Hsiang Huang, Nanyun Peng*27 citations*
4. **[Plug-and-Blend: A Framework for Controllable Story Generation with Blended Control Codes ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.7/)**Zhiyu Lin, Mark Riedl*17 citations*
5. **[FanfictionNLP: A Text Processing Pipeline for Fanfiction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.2/)**Michael Yoder, Sopan Khosla, Qinlan Shen et al.*12 citations*
6. **[Fabula Entropy Indexing: Objective Measures of Story Coherence ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.9/)**Louis Castricato, Spencer Frazier, Jonathan Balloch et al.*9 citations*
7. **[Towards a Model-Theoretic View of Narratives ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.10/)**Louis Castricato, Stella Biderman, David Thue et al.*5 citations*
8. **[Hierarchical Encoders for Modeling and Interpreting Screenplays ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.1/)**Gayatri Bhat, Avneesh Saluja, Melody Dye et al.*4 citations*
9. **[Transformer-based Screenplay Summarization Using Augmented Learning Representation with Dialogue Information ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.6/)**Myungji Lee, Hongseok Kwon, Jaehun Shin et al.*4 citations*
10. **[Learning Similarity between Movie Characters and Its Potential Implications on Understanding Human Experiences ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.3/)**Zhilin Wang, Weizhe Lin, Xiaodong Wu

## Papers with our summary in our library (2)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[Gender and Representation Bias in GPT-3 Generated Stories](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lucy-2021-gender-representation-bias-gpt-3/) [Workshop on Narrative Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nuse/)**Li Lucy, David Bamman*2021 · 387 citations*
2. **[Automatic Story Generation: Challenges and Attempts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alabdulkarim-2021-automatic-story-generation-challenges-attempts/) [Workshop on Narrative Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nuse/)**Amal Alabdulkarim, Siyan Li, Xiangyu Peng*2021 · 61 citations*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Text generation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Social Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**David Bamman**1 work here · 387 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bamman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Li Lucy**1 work here · 387 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-lucy/) · [🧑‍🔬**Amal Alabdulkarim**1 work here · 61 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amal-alabdulkarim/) · [🧑‍🔬**Siyan Li**1 work here · 61 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siyan-li/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**Georgia Institute of Technology** Atlanta · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgia-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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