LitVISTA: A Benchmark for Narrative Orchestration in Literary Text
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| author | Lu, Mingzhe Wang, Yiwen Liu, Yanbing You, Qi Liu, Chong Qin, Ruize Dong, Haoyu Zhang, Wenyu Zhang, Jiarui Hu, Yue Li, Yunpeng |
| author_facet | Lu, Mingzhe Wang, Yiwen Liu, Yanbing You, Qi Liu, Chong Qin, Ruize Dong, Haoyu Zhang, Wenyu Zhang, Jiarui Hu, Yue Li, Yunpeng |
| contents | Computational narrative analysis aims to capture rhythm, tension, and emotional dynamics in literary texts. Existing large language models can generate long stories but overly focus on causal coherence, neglecting the complex story arcs and orchestration inherent in human narratives. This suggests a structural misalignment between model- and human-generated narratives. We therefore position narrative analysis as a diagnostic proxy for generation and propose VISTA Space, a high-dimensional framework for narrative orchestration that unifies human and model perspectives while jointly characterizing narrative function and structure in a common space. We further introduce LitVISTA, a structurally annotated benchmark grounded in literary texts, which operationalizes VISTA Space for systematic evaluation of models' narrative orchestration capabilities. Under an oracle setting with gold event anchors, we evaluate frontier LLMs including GPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini. Results reveal systematic deficiencies, as current models struggle to jointly capture narrative function and structure and fail to form an integrated global view of literary narrative orchestration. End-to-end analysis further shows that failures are dominated by anchor identification and localization errors. Even advanced thinking modes yield mixed and often limited gains for literary narrative understanding. |
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| spellingShingle | LitVISTA: A Benchmark for Narrative Orchestration in Literary Text Lu, Mingzhe Wang, Yiwen Liu, Yanbing You, Qi Liu, Chong Qin, Ruize Dong, Haoyu Zhang, Wenyu Zhang, Jiarui Hu, Yue Li, Yunpeng Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Computational narrative analysis aims to capture rhythm, tension, and emotional dynamics in literary texts. Existing large language models can generate long stories but overly focus on causal coherence, neglecting the complex story arcs and orchestration inherent in human narratives. This suggests a structural misalignment between model- and human-generated narratives. We therefore position narrative analysis as a diagnostic proxy for generation and propose VISTA Space, a high-dimensional framework for narrative orchestration that unifies human and model perspectives while jointly characterizing narrative function and structure in a common space. We further introduce LitVISTA, a structurally annotated benchmark grounded in literary texts, which operationalizes VISTA Space for systematic evaluation of models' narrative orchestration capabilities. Under an oracle setting with gold event anchors, we evaluate frontier LLMs including GPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini. Results reveal systematic deficiencies, as current models struggle to jointly capture narrative function and structure and fail to form an integrated global view of literary narrative orchestration. End-to-end analysis further shows that failures are dominated by anchor identification and localization errors. Even advanced thinking modes yield mixed and often limited gains for literary narrative understanding. |
| title | LitVISTA: A Benchmark for Narrative Orchestration in Literary Text |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06445 |