[Commlist] Call for Papers - 9th International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN'26)

Call for Papers
CMN'26
9th International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative
June 8-10, 2026 - Madrid, Spain
<https://sites.google.com/ucm.es/cmn26>

AIMS
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This interdisciplinary workshop will be an appropriate venue for papers 
addressing fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative. Papers 
should be relevant to the computational modeling and scientific or 
humanistic understanding of narrative. The workshop will focus on how 
computational modeling, analysis, or narrative generation has affected 
approaches for studying and generating narratives in or across textual, 
aural, or visual media. Possible themes could connect to the 
representation of narrative, connections between cognition and narrative 
or knowledge representation and narrative, the use of heuristics to 
handle complexity, incorporation of insights about human thinking, the 
use of narrative to organize information in the humanities, the 
relationship between top-down and bottom-up approaches for narrative 
understanding, or how narrative functions differently depending upon the 
medium. Regardless of its topic, reported work should provide insight of 
use to the scientific understanding or computational modeling of 
narratives. Discussing technological applications or motivations is not 
prohibited, but is not required. We accept both finished research and 
more tentative exploratory work.

IMPORTANT DATES
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* February 8, 2026. Submission deadline.
* March 20, 2026. Notification of acceptance.
* April 17, 2026. Final Versions Due.
* June 8-10, 2026. Workshop in Madrid, Spain.

SUBMISSION
==========
We invite and encourage submissions either as full papers or position 
papers through EasyChair at <https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=cmn26>:
* Full papers should contain original research and be between 8 and 16 
pages, references included.
* Position papers can report on work-in-progress, research plans or 
projects and have to fit within 8 pages, references included.

Papers should be submitted as pdf files, following the templates 
provided at <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip> (1 column format). 
Authors are encouraged to include their ORCID (<https://orcid.org/>) 
number in the paper. They do not need to be anonymized. We also invite 
you to submit an abstract soon so that we can gauge the number of 
submissions we can expect (submitting an abstract is possible without 
submitting the entire paper at the same time). Text generated by Large 
Language Models (LLM) such as ChatGPT is prohibited. Authors may still 
use LLMs for editing or polishing author-written text.

Accepted papers will be published in open access (Gold Road), free of 
charge.

ILLUSTRATIVE TOPICS AND QUESTIONS
=================================
* What are appropriate formal or computational representations for 
narrative?
* How is narrative knowledge captured and represented?
* Is narrative structure universal, or are there systematic differences 
in narratives from different cultures?
* What makes narrative different from a list of events or facts?
* How can agents be used to model, interpret or generate narratives?
* What comprises the set of possible narrative arcs? Is there such a set?
* How do conceptions and models of spatiality or temporality influence 
narrative and cognitive systems?
* What are the details of the relationship between narrative and 
language, image, or sound?
* How are narratives affected by the media used to convey them?
* How far are we from a model of narrative adaptation across media?
* How can we study narrative from a cognitive point of view?
* Can narrative be subsumed by current models of higher-level cognition, 
or does it require new approaches?
* How do narratives mediate our cognitive experiences, or affect our 
cognitive abilities?
* How can narrative systems be applied to problem-solving?
* What are the details of the relationship between narrative and common 
sense?
* How should we evaluate computational and formal models of narrative?
* What shared resources are required for the computational study of 
narrative? What should a "Story Bank" contain?
* How are narratives indexed and retrieved? Is there a universal scheme 
for encoding episodic information?
* What shared resources and tools are available, or how can 
already-existent resources be adapted to the study of narrative?

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
====================
* Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), local chair
* Virginia Francisco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
* Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
* Carlos León (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
* Gonzalo Méndez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
* Susana Bautista (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria)
* Cristina Alameda (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

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