Can AI Understand Stories? Large Language Models Take on Narrative Topic Labeling
.txtLAB @ McGill 2025-05-27
Summary:
For years, researchers in the digital humanities and computational social sciences have relied on topic models like LDA to identify the contours of narrative content at large scale. But anyone who has worked with these models knows their limitations—ambiguous labels, fiddly parameters, and sometimes baffling “topics” like “seemed, appeared, length, moment…” Recent advances in large…