Hypertextual rethoric: towards a model for interactive fiction analysis

Hypertextual Fiction on the Internet: A Structural and Narratological Analysis

Towards a theory of narrative for interactive fiction

The current paradigm for synthetic reality based interactive fiction features familiar kinds of worlds realistically presented. This approach is unsatisfying in that it excludes several interesting classes of worlds, such as worlds where the user experiences the subjective reality of a character with a substantially different personality. We wish to extend the current paradigm to include classe...

An interactive hypertextual environment for MT training

An interactive hypertextual environment for MT training is described. It combines the ARIANE MT system with an hypertextual control interface implemented on the learner’s personal computer, and communicating with the ARIANE server through e-mail.

Comments on Nonfinite Adverbial Patterns in English Prose Fiction: A Simple Model for Analysis and Use

This study aims to present an accessible model of some frequent nonfinite adverbial types occurring in English prose fiction. As its main syntactic argument, it recognizes that these adverbials are mostly elliptical in that there are some dependent-clause markers one can assume to be implicit when supplying those elements back into the clause complex. Some comments are provided at the end on th...

Natural Language, Semantic Analysis and Interactive Fiction

This is an account of theoretical issues which came out, almost unbidden, from a practical test of the following hypothesis: that the natural language in which to write interactive fiction is natural language. IF is a form of creative writing impossible before the development of computing, but whose 30-year history has seen a f lourishing of experimentation if not mainstream acceptance (except ...