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++ CALL FOR PAPERS ++ </div>
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Ninth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'26) </div>
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Held in conjunction with the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'26) </div>
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April 2nd, 2026 – Delft, The Netherlands</div>
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Website: https://text2story26.inesctec.pt</div>
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++ Important Dates ++ </div>
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- Submission Deadline: January 23rd, 2026 </div>
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- Acceptance Notification: February 28th, 2026</div>
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- Camera-ready copies: March 15th, 2026</div>
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- Workshop: April 2nd, 2026</div>
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++ Overview ++ </div>
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For eight years, Text2Story has gathered researchers on narrative understanding, detecting, representing, and reasoning over stories in text. Recent progress and discussions have been driven by Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs), which are increasingly
central to the field and have reshaped approaches to narrative extraction and interpretation. Despite rapid progress, challenges persist in fine-grained narrative structure, dialogue and multimodal narratives, robustness to domain shift, and evaluation beyond
surface accuracy. The ninth edition of the workshop will spotlight the growing convergence of Information Retrieval (IR) with Transformers/LLMs and agentic AI. By centering these IR-aligned problems, Text2Story aims to advance both fundamental insights and
practical applications in narrative search, understanding, and generation</div>
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++ List of Topics ++ </div>
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Research papers submitted to the workshop should advance the understanding, modeling, and application of narratives across text and multimodal contexts. We encourage work on narrative extraction, representation, analysis, and generation, particularly in connection
with Transformers, LLMs, and Agentic AI, as well as research that bridges narrative understanding and information retrieval. Contributions regarding low and medium resource languages are welcome.</div>
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++ Submission Guidelines ++ </div>
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We solicit the following types of contributions:</div>
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-> Full papers (up to 8 pages + references): Original and high-quality unpublished contributions to the theory and practical aspects of the narrative extraction task. Full papers should introduce existing approaches, describe the methodology and the experiments
conducted in detail. Negative result papers to highlight tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome are also welcomed.</div>
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-> Short papers (up to 5 pages + references): Unpublished short papers describing work in progress; position papers introducing a new point of view, a research vision or a reasoned opinion on the workshop topics; and dissemination papers describing project
ideas, ongoing research lines, case studies or summarized versions of previously published papers in high-quality conferences/journals that are worthwhile sharing with the Text2Story community, but where novelty is not a fundamental issue.</div>
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-> Demos | Resource Papers (up to 5 pages + references): Unpublished papers presenting research/industrial demos; papers describing important resources (datasets or software packages) to the Text2Story community.</div>
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Submissions will be refereed through a single-blind peer-review process by three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by all the workshop organizers. The accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published at CEUR workshop proceedings (indexed
in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they don't conflict with previous publication rights.</div>
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++ Workshop Format ++ </div>
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Participants of accepted papers will be given 15 minutes for oral presentations. </div>
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++ Invited Speakers ++</div>
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Federico Pianzola, University of Groningen, The Netherlands</div>
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Arian Pasquali, Faktion.com, Belgium</div>
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++ Organizing committee ++ </div>
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Ricardo Campos (INESC TEC; University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal)</div>
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Alípio M. Jorge (INESC TEC; University of Porto, Portugal)</div>
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Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria)</div>
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Sumit Bhatia (Media and Data Science Research Lab, Adobe)</div>
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Marina Litvak (Shamoon Academic College of Engineering, Israel)</div>
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++ Proceedings Chair ++</div>
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João Paulo Cordeiro (NOVA Lincs & University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal)</div>
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Conceição Rocha (INESC TEC, Portugal) </div>
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Filipe Cunha (INESC TEC & University of Porto, Portugal) </div>
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Behrooz Mansouri (University of Maine, USA) </div>
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++ Program Committee ++</div>
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Full PC members list on Text2Story webpage</div>
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++ Contacts ++ </div>
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Website: https://text2story26.inesctec.pt </div>
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For general inquiries regarding the workshop, reach the organizers at: text2story2026@easychair.org</div>
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