Mark A. Finlayson

COGNAC at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Evaluating Narrative Components with LLMs for Hard Story Similarity Cases

This system for the Narrative Similarity task at SemEval-2026 (Task 4), where the goal is to determine which of two candidate stories is more similar to an anchor story directly or via vector representations, finds that chain-of-thought–style prompting with detailed reasoning outputs achieves comparable results to the scoring approach on difficult examples.