Understanding Organizational Narrative-Counter-narratives Dynamics:

Understanding Robocup-Soccer Narratives

We present an approach to map Robocup-soccer narratives (in natural language) to a sequence of meaningful events. Our approach takes advantage of an action-centered framework, an inference subroutine, and an iterative learning algorithm. Our framework represents the narrative as a sequence of sentences and each sentence as a probability distribution over deterministic events. Our learning algor...

Understanding narratives with argumentation

In this paper, we show two important connections between computational models of narrative and computational models of argumentation. First, we show how argumentation techniques can be applied to enrich story understanding, especially where an understanding the story requires understanding of the motives of its characters. This also helps to explain how stories can themselves be seen as as argu...

Examining narrative transportation to anti-alcohol narratives.

This study examined the transportation effects of alcohol consequence narratives varying in source (written by the narrative protagonist vs. protagonist's partner) and type of heath consequence (physical or emotional). Additionally, this study examined the role of narrative transportation and cognitive and discrete affective responses in the persuasion process. In this study, 501 students of a ...

Developing Effective Counter-Narrative Frameworks for CVE

Plan Understanding , Narrative Comprehension

This paper proposes that a comprehensive theory of stories must include components that deal with: (a) plan understanding, (b) narrative comprehension, and (c) the unique structural and affective aspects of the subclass of narratives that are stories.