2 papers
cs.CL2026
STAGE: A Full-Screenplay Benchmark for Reasoning over Evolving Stories
Qiuyu Tian, Zequn Liu, Yiding Li +10
Movie screenplays are a demanding testbed for long-form narrative understanding, as characters' goals, beliefs, knowledge, and relationships evolve continuously across scenes. Howe…
cs.CL2026
Narrative Knowledge Weaver: Narrative-Centric Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Long-Form Text Understanding
Qiuyu Tian, Fengyi Chen, Yiding Li +9
Long-form narrative QA requires reasoning over evolving story worlds rather than isolated passages: answers may depend on earlier goals, changing character states, social relations…