5 papers
Social Story Frames: Contextual Reasoning about Narrative Intent and Reception
Joel Mire, Maria Antoniak, Steven R. Wilson +4
Reading stories evokes rich interpretive, affective, and evaluative responses, such as inferences about narrative intent or judgments about characters. Yet, computational models of…
Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research
Lauren Klein, Meredith Martin, André Brock +5
The effects of generative AI are experienced by a broad range of constituencies, but the disciplinary inputs to its development have been surprisingly narrow. Here we present a set…
so much depends / upon / a whitespace: Why Whitespace Matters for Poets and LLMs
Sriharsh Bhyravajjula, Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus +1
Whitespace is a critical component of poetic form, reflecting both adherence to standardized forms and rebellion against those forms. Each poem's whitespace distribution reflects t…
Where Do People Tell Stories Online? Story Detection Across Online Communities
Maria Antoniak, Joel Mire, Maarten Sap +2
Story detection in online communities is a challenging task as stories are scattered across communities and interwoven with non-storytelling spans within a single text. We address…
Sonnet or Not, Bot? Poetry Evaluation for Large Models and Datasets
Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus, Maria Antoniak
Large language models (LLMs) can now generate and recognize poetry. But what do LLMs really know about poetry? We develop a task to evaluate how well LLMs recognize one aspect of E…