Narrative Consolidation: Formulating a New Task for Unifying Multi-Perspective Accounts

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arXiv:2512.18041v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Processing overlapping narrative documents, such as legal testimonies or historical accounts, often aims not for compression but for a unified, coherent, and chronologically sound text. Standard Multi-Document Summarization (MDS), with its focus on conciseness, fails to preserve narrative flow. This paper formally defines this challenge as a new NLP task, Narrative Consolidation, focusing on chronological integrity, completeness, and the fusion