@inproceedings{tikhonov-2024-branching,
    title = "Branching Narratives: Character Decision Points Detection",
    author = "Tikhonov, Alexey",
    editor = "Madge, Chris  and
      Chamberlain, Jon  and
      Fort, Karen  and
      Kruschwitz, Udo  and
      Lukin, Stephanie",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Games and Natural Language Processing @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2024.games-1.8/",
    pages = "70--75",
    abstract = "This paper presents the Character Decision Points Detection (CHADPOD) task, a task of identification of points within narratives where characters make decisions that may significantly influence the story`s direction. We propose a novel dataset based on Choose Your Own Adventure (a registered trademark of Chooseco LLC) games graphs to be used as a benchmark for such a task. We provide a comparative analysis of different models' performance on this task, including a couple of LLMs and several MLMs as baselines, achieving up to 89{\%} accuracy. This underscores the complexity of narrative analysis, showing the challenges associated with understanding character-driven story dynamics. Additionally, we show how such a model can be applied to the existing text to produce linear segments divided by potential branching points, demonstrating the practical application of our findings in narrative analysis."
}