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Abstract Wikipedia,

Hello. I am recently thinking about objectivity and subjectivity with respect to natural language generation, in particular in the contexts of story generation using historical data [1][2].

In the near future, digital humanities scholars – in particular historians – could modify collections of data and finetune generation-related parameters, watching as resultant multimodal historical narratives emerged and varied. In these regards, we can envision both computer-aided and automated historical narrative generation tools and technologies.

Could AI be a long-sought objective narrator for historians? Is all narration, or all language use, inherently subjective? What might the nature of “generation-related parameters” and “finetuning” be for style and subjectivity [3][4][5][6][7][8] when generating natural language and multimodal historical narratives from historical data [1][2]?

Thank you. Hopefully, these topics are interesting.

Best regards,

Adam Sobieski

[1] Metilli, Daniele, Valentina Bartalesi, and Carlo Meghini. "A Wikidata-based tool for building and visualising narratives." International Journal on Digital Libraries 20, no. 4 (2019): 417-432.

[2] Metilli, Daniele, Valentina Bartalesi, Carlo Meghini, and Nicola Aloia. "Populating narratives using Wikidata events: An initial experiment." In Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 159-166. Springer, Cham, 2019.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjectivity

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity_(philosophy)

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_subjectivity

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focalisation

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_view_(philosophy)