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If you use this data in your research, please refer to and cite: Zhichao Hu and Marilyn A. Walker. "Inferring Narrative Causality between Event Pairs in Films," In SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2017), Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2017.
Telling and understanding stories is a central part of human experience, and many types of human communication involve narrative structures. Theories of narrative posit that narrative causality underlies human understanding of a narrative. Our focus here is the four different relations posited by narrative theories to underly narrative coherence:
- PHYSICAL: Event A physically causes event B to happen
- MOTIVATIONAL: Event A happens with B as a motivation
- PSYCHOLOGICAL: Event A brings about emotions (expressed in event B)
- ENABLING: Event A creates a state or condition for B to happen. A enables B.
This dataset contains evaluation data used in all experiments for the aforementioned paper:
- Experiment 1, High vs. Low CPC Event Pairs: top/bottom narrative causality pairs from each genre, evaluation questions and results
- Experiment 2, CPC vs. Rel-gram Event Pairs: evaluation questions and results
- Experiment 3, Narrative Causality Types: evaluation questions and results
- Experiment 4, Genre Specific Causality: evaluation questions and results