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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2015.39
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-52794
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2015/5279/
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Caswell, David A.

Structured Narratives as a Framework for Journalism: A Work in Progress

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Abstract

This paper describes Structured Stories, a platform for producing and consuming journalism as structured narratives based on instantiations of event frames. The event frames are defined using FrameNet and are instantiated as structured events using references to nodes in various knowledge graphs. Structured narratives with recursive, fractal and network characteristics are then assembled from these structured events. The approach requires the direct reporting of journalistic events into structure by untrained reporters, and utilizes a simplified sequential user interface to achieve this. A prototype has been built and published, and is being applied to the reporting of local government journalism to explore editorial aspects of the approach.

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@InProceedings{caswell:OASIcs:2015:5279,
  author =	{David A. Caswell},
  title =	{{Structured Narratives as a Framework for Journalism: A Work in Progress}},
  booktitle =	{6th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2015)},
  pages =	{39--44},
  series =	{OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-93-4},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{45},
  editor =	{Mark A. Finlayson and Ben Miller and Antonio Lieto and Remi Ronfard},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2015/5279},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-52794},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2015.39},
  annote =	{Keywords: journalism, frames, narrative structure, event representation}
}

Keywords: journalism, frames, narrative structure, event representation
Collection: 6th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2015)
Issue Date: 2015
Date of publication: 14.08.2015

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