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# Text2Story 2026
Ninth Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Texts

## Proceedings of Text2Story — Ninth Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Texts
held in conjunction with the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026)

## Delft, The Netherlands, March 29, 2026.

Edited by

### Ricardo Campos 1,3
Alípio Mário Jorge 1,2
Adam Jatowt 4
Sumit Bhatia 5
Marina Litvak 6

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 19 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 14 papers were accepted for this volume, 6 as full papers and 8 as short papers.

### Keynote Speakers

- Knowledge Extraction from Fiction Using Generative Large Language Models and Multilingual Semantic Parsing
  Federico Pianzola
- Evaluating Generative AI and Agentic Systems: Methodologies for Systematic Assessment and Continuous Improvement
  Arian Pasquali

### Full Papers

- Agenda-based Narrative Extraction: Steering Pathfinding Algorithms with Large Language Models Brian Felipe Keith-Norambuena, Carolina Inés Rojas-Córdova, Claudio Juvenal Meneses-Villegas, Elizabeth Johanna Lam-Esquenazi, Angélica María Flores-Bustos, Ignacio Alejandro Molina-Villablanca, Joshua Emanuel Leyton-Vallejos
- Symbolic Framing Meets Diffusion Modeling: How Tariff Narratives Spread on Social Media Nitin Agarwal, Bishwa Prakash Subedi
- A Multi-Domain Red Teaming Framework for Safety, Robustness, and Fairness Evaluation of Medical Large Language Models Andrei Marian Feier, Veysel Kocaman, Yigit Gul, Ahmet Korkmaz, Alexander Thomas, Aleksei Zakharov, Jay Gil, Mehmet Butgul, David Talby
- Semantic Interaction for Narrative Map Sensemaking: An Insight-based Evaluation Brian Felipe Keith-Norambuena, Fausto German, Eric Krokos, Sarah Joseph, Chris North
- Following Socio-Environmental Conflict Narratives About Energy Transition in Chile: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis Using Dynamic Topic Modeling Jonas Rieger, Felipe Muñoz, Lars Grönberg, Kai-Robin Lange, Iván Ojeda-Pereira, Darío Briceño, Christian Nass, Carsten Stahl, José Cassola, Carolina Rojas-Córdova, Brian Keith-Norambuena, Marcelo Lufin, Fernando Campos-Medina, Sebastián Herrera-León
- Narrative Similarity Detection Using Character Roles Alexandra Barancová, Giovanni Sileno

### Short Papers

- Hallucination or Creativity: How to Evaluate AI-Generated Scientific Stories? Alex Argese, Pasquale Lisena Raphael Troncy
- Evaluating Large Language Models for Character Identification in Italian Renaissance Epics Gaudenzia Genoni, Alfio Ferrara, Stefano Montanelli
- Structural Patterns in Award-Winning Novellas Milka Kaplan, Armin Shmilovici, Mark Last
- Dynamic Participatory Game Design with Local AI: From Interviews to Trauma-Aware Interactive Narratives Kseniia Harshina, Tom Tucek, Mathias Lux
- Zero Prompting Segmentation of Movie Dialogues into Narrative Units José Luis López Calle, Pablo Gervás
- Rethinking TRIZ for AI-Driven Narrative Generation Cosimo Palma, Bertrand Jager
- Collapsing Distance: The Curse of Ground Truth in Computational Narrative Understanding Junbo Huang, Ricardo Usbeck
- Narrative-Aware Domain Knowledge Integration for Annotation-Free Medical Image Localisation Tahsir Ahmed Munna, Nuno Guimarães, Alípio Jorge

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