Koryak historical narratives about reindeer-breeder’ collectivization

Reindeer Herding in Transition: Historical and Modern Day Challenges for Alaskan Reindeer Herders

The people of northwestern Alaska have had a long relationship with local populations of Rangifer tarandus. During the last 200 years this relationship has changed from one of subsistence to overexploitation of caribou (the name for wild reindeer in North America), to commercial livestock production of semi domesticated reindeer and now may be returning to a subsistence economy based on caribou...

Modeling Complex Historical Processes with Analytic Narratives

The analytic narratives project represents an effort to clarify and make explicit the approach adopted by numerous scholars trying to combine historical and comparative research with rational choice models. In order to understand instances of institutional origin and change, analytic narrativists insist on the combination of deep knowledge of the case and an explicit theoretical model. These re...

Reasoning about RoboCup Soccer Narratives

This paper presents an approach for learning to translate simple narratives, i.e. texts (sequences of sentences) describing dynamic systems, into coherent sequences of events without the need for labeled training data. Our approach incorporates domain knowledge in the form of preconditions and effects of events, and we show that it outperforms state-of-the-art supervised learning systems on the...

Consequentialism about Historical Authenticity

Reasoning about Actions, Narratives and Ramification

The Language E is a simple declarative language for describing the e ects of action occurrences within a given narrative using an ontology of actions time points and uents i e properties which can change their truth values over time This paper shows how E may be extended to deal with rami cations More pre cisely we show how Language E domain descriptions can include statements describing perman...