CMN 2025
Computational Models of Narrative 2025

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 29 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 18 papers were accepted for this volume, 7 as regular papers and 11 as short papers.

Invited Talks

• Logical Abduction as a Computational Model of Narrative (invited paper) 1-6
  Andrew S. Gordon
• Story generation then and now: Tale-Spin, Minstrel and ChatGPT (invited paper) 7-17
  Marie-Laure Ryan

Long Papers

• Narrative Acts in the Operating Theater 18-32
  Sandrine Barbois, Rémi Ronfard, Nicolas Szilas
• Modelling the impact of censorship on early modern literary texts 33-46
  Enrica Zanin, Demian Battaglia
• Collaborative Storytelling and LLM: A Linguistic Analysis of Automatically-Generated Role-Playing Game Sessions 47-62
  Alessandro Maisto
• Deep Learning for Understanding of Narratives: What Is Still Missing? 63-72
  Marie-Francine Moens
• Narrative and the Immunization of Worldviews: Toward a New Research Paradigm 73-88
  Roy Sommer, Horst Lohnstein
• Basics of Narrative Interpretation: Physical Model and Character-Specific Views of the Storyworld 89-104
  Pablo Gervás
• Integrating Todorov’s Narrative Framework in Dialogue Management of An Oral History Interview Chatbot 105-115
  Cheng-En Tsai, Fanfan Chen, Jane Yung-jen Hsu

Short Papers

• Unintentionally Breaking the Fifth Wall: How Generative AI Invites Metalepsis in Real Life 116-123
  Louis Escouflair
• Stereotypes in AI Stories: Identifying Societal Bias in Narratives Generated by Large Language Models 124-127
  Louis Escouflair
• Simple 1980s Story Machine with Lessons for Narrative and Computing 128-135
  Nick Montfort
• FracTale: Assessing the Correlation Between Narrative Beauty and Self-Similarity in Grimm’s Folktales 136-144
  Cosimo Palma, Florentina Armaselu
• How to evaluate a computer narrator that evaluates itself 145-152
  Rafael Pérez y Pérez
• Automatic Narration of Movies via NarrativeML 153-161
  Inderjeet Mani
• Empowering Players as Story Creators: A Character-Centric Interactive Fiction Generation System 162-169
  Jeongyoon Park, Yun-Gyung Cheong, Byung-Chull Bae
• Reviewing as storytelling? 170-178
  Alexandra Barancová Giovanni Sileno
• Modeling Interactive Narrative Systems: A Formal Approach 179-187
  Jules Clerc, Domitile Lourdeaux, Mohamed Sallak, Johann Barbier, Marc Ravaine
• The Scenification of the Novel in the Time of Jane Austen 188-194
  Nicholas Paige, Aaron Culich
• Computational system for narratives with a concern for truth 195-202
  Vincenzo Lombardo Aurora Laurenti, Matteo Capurro, Federico Favole, Luigi Provero, Gelsomina Spione, Alessio Fiore