5 papers
Information Terra: A Narrative-Anchored Semantic-First Projection of Document Embeddings
Brian Keith-Norambuena, Fausto German, Chris North
We introduce Information Terra, a narrative-anchored semantic-first projection that places a document corpus on an Earth-like globe whose poles are two user-chosen endpoint documen…
Semantic Prompting: Agentic Incremental Narrative Refinement through Spatial Semantic Interaction
Xuxin Tang, Ibrahim Tahmid, Eric Krokos +3
Interactive spatial layouts empower users to synthesize information and organize findings for sensemaking. While Large Language Models (LLMs) can automate narrative generation from…
Semantic Interaction for Narrative Map Sensemaking: An Insight-based Evaluation
Brian Felipe Keith-Norambuena, Fausto German, Eric Krokos +2
Semantic interaction (SI) enables analysts to incorporate their cognitive processes into AI models through direct manipulation of visualizations. While SI frameworks for narrative…
Explainable AI Components for Narrative Map Extraction
Brian Keith, Fausto German, Eric Krokos +2
As narrative extraction systems grow in complexity, establishing user trust through interpretable and explainable outputs becomes increasingly critical. This paper presents an eval…
Narrative Trails: A Method for Coherent Storyline Extraction via Maximum Capacity Path Optimization
Fausto German, Brian Keith, Chris North
Traditional information retrieval is primarily concerned with finding relevant information from large datasets without imposing a structure within the retrieved pieces of data. How…