Abstract
Capturing readers’ engagement in fiction is a challenging but important aspect of narrative understanding. In this study, we collected 23 readers’ reactions to 2 short stories through eye tracking, sentence-level annotations, and an overall engagement scale survey. We analyzed the significance of various qualities of the text in predicting how engaging a reader is likely to find it. As enjoyment of fiction is highly contextual, we also investigated individual differences in our data. Furthering our understanding of what captivates readers in fiction will help better inform models used in creative narrative generation and collaborative writing tools.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | 5th Workshop on Narrative Understanding, WNU 2023 - Proceedings of the Workshop |
| Editors | Nader Akoury, Elizabeth Clark, Mohit Iyyer, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Faeze Brahman, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| Pages | 73-81 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781959429920 |
| State | Published - 2023 |
| Event | 5th Workshop on Narrative Understanding, WNU 2023 - Toronto, Canada Duration: Jul 14 2023 → … |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
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| ISSN (Print) | 0736-587X |
Conference
| Conference | 5th Workshop on Narrative Understanding, WNU 2023 |
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| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Toronto |
| Period | 7/14/23 → … |
Bibliographical note
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