Best paper award at CoNLL in Singapore for Max van Duijn

Max van Duijn and his co-authors received the best paper award at the yearly Conference on Computational Natrural Language Learning (CoNLL) in Singapore for the Children’s Story Corpus on which they had been working on since 2019 at LIACS. The resource paper releases ChiSCor, a new corpus containing 619 fantasy stories, told freely by 442 Dutch children aged 4-12. The paper details how ChiSCor was compiled and shows its potential for future work as well as a reflection on the value of narrative datasets in computational linguistics.