Vol-3964
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Text2Story 2025
Eighth Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Texts 2025

Proceedings of Text2Story — Eighth Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Texts
held in conjunction with the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025)

Lucca, Italy, April 10, 2025.

Edited by

Ricardo Campos^1,3
Alípio Mário Jorge^1,2
Adam Jatowt⁴
Sumit Bhatia⁵
Marina Litvak⁶

¹ INESC TEC, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
² FCUP, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, s/n, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
³ University of Beira Interior, Rua Marquês d'Ávila e Bolama, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
⁴ University of Innsbruck, Austria, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
⁵ Adobe Media and Data Science Research Lab, India, MDSR Lab, Adobe Systems, India
⁶ Shamoon Academic College of Engineering, Israel, 56 Bialik St. Be'er Sheva 8410802, Israel

Table of Contents

Preface
Summary: There were 26 papers submitted for peer review to this workshop. Out of these, 20 were accepted for this volume, 14 as regular papers, and 6 in the Work in Progress, Demos, and Dissemination category.

Keynote Speaker

Revisiting Frames for Event Extraction in the Digital Humanities 001-002
Sara Tonelli

Research Papers

Explainable AI Components for Narrative Map Extraction 003-014
Brian Keith, Fausto German, Eric Krokos, Sarah Joseph, Chris North
Narrative Trails: A Method for Coherent Storyline Extraction via Maximum Capacity Path Optimization 015-027
Fausto German, Brian Keith, Chris North
FlintstonesSV++ : Improving Story Narration using Visual Scene Graph 029-038
Janak Kapuriya, Paul Buitelaar
Flipping The Script: Complementary Modes of Story Generation in Comics 039-048
Tony Veale
Beyond Negation Detection: Comprehensive Assertion Detection Models for Clinical NLP 049-065
Veysel Kocaman, Aytug Kaya, Yigit Gul, Cabir Celik, David Talby, Mehmet Butgul, Hasham Ui Haq
Narrative Shift Detection: A Hybrid Approach of Dynamic Topic Models and Large Language Models 067-080
Kai-Robin Lange, Tobias Schmidt, Matthias Reccius, Henrik Müller, Michael Roos, Carsten Jentsch
Unveiling Hidden Stories: Automated Narrative Extraction from Holocaust Diaries with Ensemble LLMs 081-092
Angelina Parfenova
Can Zero-Shot Commerical API’s Deliver Regulatory-Grade Clinical Text De-Identification? 093-106
Veysel Kocaman, Muhammet Santas, Yigit Gul, Mehmet Butgul, David Talby
Automatic Segmentation of Narrative Text Into Scenes According to SceneML 107-116
Tarfah Alrashid, Robert Gaizauskas
Accounting for the Importance of Changes in Event Actuality in the Representation of Narrative 117-125
Pablo Gervás, Jose Luis López-Calle
Interpreting Narrations of Events Witnessed: Relying on Location Data to Help Place Embedded Stories 127-135
Pablo Gervás
Automated Identification of Competing Narratives in Political Discourse on Social Media 137-147
Sergej Wildemann, Erick Elejalde
Human Experts vs. Large Language Models: Evaluating Annotation Scheme and Guidelines Development for Clinical Narratives 149-160
Ana Luisa Fernandes, Purificação Silvano, Nuno Guimarães, Rita Rb-Silva, Tahsir Ahmed Munna, Luís Filipe Cunha, António Leal, Ricardo Campos, Alípio Jorge
Using LLMs to Generate Patient Journeys in Portuguese: an Experiment 161-173
Tahsir Ahmed Munna, Ana Luísa Fernandes, Purificação Silvano, Nuno Guimarães, Alípio Jorge

Work in Progress, Demos and Dissemination

Disinformation vs. Trustworthy News: A Knowledge Graph-Based Analysis of Narrative and Framing Patterns 175-183
Justina Mandravickaitė
Weaving Tales of Crafts: Narrative Creation for Cultural Heritage Preservation 185-191
Nicolò Pratelli, Valentina Bartalesi
Newsletter-Factory: A Thematic Newsletter Generation Tool for Curating Business Insights 193-200
Siddharth Tumre, Alok Kumar, Ajay Phade, Nihar Riswadkar, Sangameshwar Patil
Monitoring narratives about the energy transition in Germany 201-214
Jonas Rieger, Lars Grönberg, Carmen Loschke, Sibylle Braungardt
On the Challenges in Evaluating Visually Grounded Stories 215-223
Aditya K Surikuchi, Raquel Fernández, Sandro Pezzelle

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