Zhao et al., "Discovering Collective Narratives Shifts in Online Discussions" (2024)

2026-08-01

Wanying Zhao, Siyi Guo, Kristina Lerman, and Yong-Yeol Ahn, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 18, 1804–1817 (2024)
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@inproceedings{zhao2024discovering,
    author = {Wanying Zhao and Siyi Guo and Kristina Lerman and Yong-Yeol Ahn},
    title = {Discovering Collective Narratives Shifts in Online Discussions},
    booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)}},
    volume = {18},
    pages = {1804--1817},
    month = {5},
    year = {2024},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    eprint = {2307.08541},
    primaryClass = {cs.CL},
    doi = {10.1609/icwsm.v18i1.31427},
}

Narrative, Semantic role labeling

The paper combines change-point detection with semantic role labeling to extract actor-action-patient fragments, then aggregates them into narrative networks. On Twitter corpora about COVID-19 and the 2017 French election, the method recovers collective narrative shifts that correspond to major events.

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