Frontmatter, Table of Contents, Preface, List of Authors

Abstract

Welcome to the Sixth Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative. This year finds us co-located with the Third Annual Conference of Advanced in Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2015).  This association made it appropriate to have a special focus on the intersection of cognitive systems and narrative. This intersection is rich and broad, covering the gamut from psychological and cognitive impact of narratives to our ability to model narrative responses computationally.  Papers contributed to this volume tackle questions of narrative analysis in the domains of medical information and journalism, and of various story generation systems and frameworks. They look to extend prior paradigms, in one case connecting event segmentation theory to the computational modeling of narrative, and in another, proposing a model for synthesizing temporal, ontological, and psychological aspects of story.  And they report on experiments such as the application of syntactic and semantic feature detection to the exploration of higher-level storytelling tropes such as romantic love and animacy.