1 INTRODUCTION  
1.1 Scope of this Survey and Definitions  
1.2 Related Surveys  

2 NEWS NARRATIVE EXTRACTION  
2.1 Overview  
2.2 Events as Sentences  
2.3 Events as Documents  
2.4 Events as Clusters: Event Evolution and Threading  

3 NARRATIVE EXTRACTION CRITERIA  

4 EVALUATION METRICS  
4.1 Computational Metrics  
4.2 User Evaluation Metrics  

5 DISCUSSION  
5.1 Narrative Structure  
5.2 Extraction Methods  
5.3 Evaluation Methods  
5.4 Practical Applications  
5.5 Recent Trends and Open Challenges  

6 CONCLUSIONS