Narrativising Events
Year: 2024

Abstract A challenge for automated user access to, or presentation of, event data is the fact that such data rarely explicitly controls for appropriate narrativisation choices. This is problematic because readers nevertheless read narrativisation effects into texts regardless of whether those effects were intended or not. Gaining control of such effects, which we characterise here as the “narrativisation task”, therefore constitutes a general problem whenever knowledge is to be externalised for