liwca.datasets.corpora.fetch_hippocorpus

liwca.datasets.corpora.fetch_hippocorpus()

Fetch the Hippocorpus.

A crowdsourced corpus of imagined, recalled, and retold stories.

Distributed by Microsoft Research.

Direct download link: https://download.microsoft.com/download/3/c/3/3c388755-ac68-4858-8343-9acfb33c631d/hippocorpus-u20220112.zip

If used, cite: Sap et al., 2020. Recollection versus imagination: Exploring human memory and cognition via neural language models. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics doi:10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.178

See also

Sap et al., 2022. Quantifying the narrative flow of imagined versus autobiographical stories PNAS doi:10.1073/pnas.2211715119

Returns:

DataFrame of the hcV3-stories.csv file.

Return type:

pandas.DataFrame

Notes

Also available on Kaggle and on Hugging Face.

Also analyzed in Su et al., 2026, Commun Psychol, Retention and transformation of internal experiencesin autobiographical memory narrative doi:10.1038/s44271-026-00425-8 and available in preprocessed form in an OSF repository.

Also analyzed in Sunny et al., 2025, CoNLL 2025, From stories to statistics: Methodological biases in LLM-based narrative flow quantification doi:10.18653/v1/2025.conll-1.14 With some processing code on GitHub.