Narratives are an important human tool for communication, representation and understanding. Natural Language Processing already offers many instruments that enable the automatic extraction of narrative elements from texts, including Named Entity Recognition, Semantic Role Labeling, Sentiment Analysis, Anaphora Resolution, Temporal Reasoning, etc. The storyfication of data is being used to generate textual reports on finance and sports, among others. Timelines and infographics can be employed to represent in a more compact way automatically identified narrative chains in a large set of news articles, assisting human readers in grasping complex stories with different moments and a network of characters. While the Automatic Generation of Text shows impressive results towards computational creativity, it still needs to develop means for controlling the narrative intent of the output. Automatically Generated Narratives can also be used to summarize videos in different applications (health care, surveillance and safety, sports, etc.) or sensor data. They can also be useful for Explainable AI, Algorithmic Transparency, developing Trust on AI users and generally enabling rich Human-AI interaction.

It is therefore important to gather the knowledge on AI means, concepts and tools for Narrative Extraction, Representation and Generation and to join the AI community on these topics. This includes AI fields such as NLP, Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation, Inference, Planning, Graphical Communication and Image Processing. Applications include health care (patient stories), media (news outlets), communication science, business and reporting (data stories), industry (transparency) and arts (story generation, graphical depiction of stories).

This workshop aims to bring together AI researchers and practitioners working on the topic of Narratives, mainly for those working on NLP, but open to other relevant inputs in this emerging area. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit research papers, application papers, project summary papers and demo papers. Each paper will be presented either orally or as a demo.

Contributions on the following topics are welcome, as well as on other non listed but highly relevant topics:

• Narrative Extraction from text, including social media
• Narrative Understanding
• Storyfication of non-textual data, including image, video, financial, weather, sports and sensor data
• Narrative formalisation and reasoning on narratives, including representation formalisms and narrative calculus
• Representing Narratives graphically or in other forms of communication, including infographics, cartoons, slide shows, video-clips, video-games, etc
• Generation of textual narratives, including narrative construction, narrative creation, planning and problem solving for narratives
• Narrative Temporal Reasoning
• Bias in Narrative Generation
• Applications of narrative extraction and generation, including media, health care, science, sports, industry, business and administration, education, recommender systems and XAI
• Evaluation methodologies for Narrative Extraction and Generation
• Related methods for narrative construction including abstractive summarization, reinforcement learning, transfer learning and so on