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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">*** Apologies for cross-posting *** <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">++ CALL FOR PAPERS ++ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ninth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'26)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Held in conjunction with the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'26)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">April 2nd, 2026 – Delft, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Website: </span><a href="https://text2story26.inesctec.pt"><span lang="EN-US">https://text2story26.inesctec.pt</span></a><span lang="EN-US">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">++ Important Dates ++ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Submission Deadline: January 23rd, 2026
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Acceptance Notification: February 28th, 2026
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Camera-ready copies: March 15th, 2026 <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Workshop: April 2nd, 2026 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">++ Overview ++ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">++ List of Topics ++ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">++ Submission Guidelines ++ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We solicit the following types of contributions:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-> 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">++ Workshop Format ++ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Participants of accepted papers will be given 15 minutes for oral presentations.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">++ Invited Speakers ++ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Federico Pianzola, University of Groningen, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Arian Pasquali, Faktion.com, Belgium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">++ Organizing committee ++ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>Ricardo Campos (INESC TEC; University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal)
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Alípio M. Jorge (INESC TEC; University of Porto, Portugal)
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US">Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Sumit Bhatia (Media and Data Science Research Lab, Adobe)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Marina Litvak (Shamoon Academic College of Engineering, Israel)
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<p class="MsoNormal">++ Proceedings Chair ++ <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> João Paulo Cordeiro (NOVA Lincs & University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal)
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Conceição Rocha (INESC TEC, Portugal) <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">++ Web and Dissemination Chair ++ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Filipe Cunha (INESC TEC & University of Porto, Portugal)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Behrooz Mansouri (University of Maine, USA)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">++ Program Committee ++<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Full PC members list on Text2Story webpage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">++ Contacts ++ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Website: </span><a href="https://text2story26.inesctec.pt"><span lang="EN-US">https://text2story26.inesctec.pt</span></a><span lang="EN-US">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For general inquiries regarding the workshop, reach the organizers at:
</span><a href="mailto:text2story2026@easychair.org"><span lang="EN-US">text2story2026@easychair.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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