OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
In this (very preliminary) project, I aim to develop a framework for studying narratives. I propose a novel methodology which leverages LLM capabilities to extract individual stories from a corpus of texts, creating a database of stories. Stories are then compared, via a notion of semantic similarity which respects story-structure, and agglomerated into narratives. Preliminary results attesting to the capabilities of the methodology in the context of inflation-related narratives will be furnished, along with proposed directions for future research. Accompanying preliminary theoretical conjectures, and the empirical hypotheses they generate, will also be discussed.
