IREvent2Story: A Novel Mediation Ontology and Narrative Generation

Event detection is a key aspect of story development which is composed of multiple narrative layers. Most of the narratives are template-based and follow a narration theory. In this paper, we demonstrate a narrative from events detected in the international relations domain along with classification of events using our novel mediation ontology. We also introduce a novel method of classifying events through the mediation ontology. Our methodology involves action classification based on the verb categorization of Beth Levin, its arguments determined by universal dependencies and word2vec. The selected feature space is a result of mapping language entities to ontological entities where we obtain substantially good results. The narration also presents interactions of international actors over various topics as well as other visualizations.