
Building Narratives through Structured Representations
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Inès Blin
Assistant Researcher

Remi Van Trijp
Research Leader

Ilaria Tiddi
Assistant Professor

Annette ten Teije
Professor
— Abstract
This project aims to build narratives through structured representations. This can be seen as a two-step process: first constructing the knowledge graph that acts as the backend common memory, and second generating narratives from that knowledge graph. The project has so far focused on three core use cases. The historical data use case focuses on event representations and enables question-answering over grand historical events. For the social media use case, we constructed a knowledge graph from twitter content using metadata and frame analysis, and we project to analyze current claims made by users on social media. For the social science use case, we built a hypothesis-centric knowledge graph and used it for automated hypothesis generation. The goal of the project is to build human-centric, interpretable solutions to assist humans in their daily tasks, and combines both symbolic and sub symbolic techniques.
— Project
This project started with the MUHAI (https://muhai.org/) Project, and the social science use case was later funded by an NWO project (https://www.nwo.nl/en/projects/406xs04118) on “Living Meta-Analyses: Automatically Creating Literature Reviews using AI techniques.”
This project aims to develop knowledge-enriched AI techniques that combine symbolic and sub-symbolic methods to address their respective weaknesses. We also believe that constructing transparent systems (knowledge graphs provide lineage) that can build narratives that are inherent to humans will yield in improved human-centric AI systems.
Papers
- Building Narrative Structures from Knowledge Graphs: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-11609-4_38
- OKG: A Knowledge Graph for Fine-grained Understanding of Social Media Discourse on Inequality: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3587259.3627557
- Building a French Revolution Narrative from Wikidata: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3322/short1.pdf
- Structured Representations for Narratives: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-77792-9_9
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