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Building Narratives through Structured Representations

For the next seminar of the medialab, which will take place on Tuesday, December 3rd, we will host Inès Blin, who will talk about her research on building narratives through structured representations.

Event, Research Seminar

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Salle K.008, 1 Place St-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

Summary

Humans rely on narratives to interpret complex events, a capability often missing in AI. My research seeks to bridge this gap by enabling AI to construct narratives, making it more human-centric. This approach involves three core steps: representation, knowledge graph construction (serving as the AI’s memory), and narrative generation. I will focus on the social media use case, showing how narrative-driven AI can provide deeper insights into complex content, and briefly present use cases in historical data and social science. Ultimately, narrative-building in AI can make it a powerful, human-like tool for improved understanding.

Biography

Inès Blin is an assistant researcher at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) in Paris and a Ph.D. student in Computer Science in collaboration with CSL and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA). Her research focuses on building narratives through structured representations, with interests in knowledge graphs, NLP, and narratives. Previously, she contributed to the European project MUHAI at CSL on sense making for AI, and to an NWO project at VUA on automated hypothesis discovery and meta-review generation. She holds an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Computer Science from École Centrale Paris.

Practical information

This seminar will take place in person and in English, on Tuesday, December 3rd, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, in room K.008, 1 Place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin. Registration is mandatory via this link.