Causal networks have been successfully used to explain the process of narrative comprehension in humans (Trabasso et al., 1989). This motivated their use in the automatic creation of fairy tales (Swartjes and Theune, 2006; Theune et al., 2007). Some have suggested that causal relations also play an important role in improving narrative generation from real-life temporal data (Hunter et al., 201...

dans cet article, nous analyserons le discours narratif dans haft peykar, l’œuvre de nézami, afin d’étudier les éléments de l’acte narratif : la personne, le héros/narrateur, la fonction narrative et le destinataire. on examinera ainsi la structure des récits des sept princesses et ceux des sept prisonniers, constituant deux cycles de récits dans le récit principal. nous constaterons ainsi la v...

OBJECTIVE To develop an electronic health record that facilitates rapid capture of detailed narrative observations from clinicians, with partial structuring of narrative information for integration and reuse. DESIGN We propose a design in which unstructured text and coded data are fused into a single model called structured narrative. Each major clinical event (e.g., encounter or procedure) i...

MOTT, BRADFORD WAYNE. Decision-Theoretic Narrative Planning for Guided Exploratory Learning Environments. (Under the direction of James C. Lester and R. Michael Young.) Interactive narrative environments have been the focus of increasing attention in recent years. A key challenge posed by these environments is narrative planning, in which a director agent orchestrates all of the events in an in...

Two groups of children who were slow in expressive language development (SELD) at age 2 and a matched group of toddlers with normal language were re-evaluated at age 4. Assessment included measures of productive syntactic skills in spontaneous speech and narrative abilities in a standard story retelling task. Four-year-olds who continued to perform below the normal range in sentence structure p...

The growing supply of online mental health tools, platforms and treatments results in an enormous quantity of digital narrative data to be structured, analysed and interpreted. Natural Language Processing is very suitable to automatically extract textual and structural features from narratives. Visualizing these features can help to explore patterns and shifts in text content and structure. In ...

This paper proposes a method for learning how to generate narrative by recombining sentences from a previous collection. Given a corpus of story events categorised into 9 topics, we approximate a deep reinforcement learning agent policy to recombine them in order to satisfy narrative structure. We also propose an evaluation of such a system. The evaluation is based on coherence, interest, and t...

Previous studies have used the Innovative Moments Coding System (IMCS) to describe the process of change in Narrative Therapy (NT) and in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). This study aims to extend this research program to a sample of Client-Centered Therapy (CCT). The IMCS was applied to six cases of CCT for depression to track the Innovative Moments (IMs) which are exceptions to the problematic ...

BACKGROUND Systematic studies of the efficacy of Narrative Therapy (NT) for depression are sparse. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of individual NT for moderate depression in adults compared to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). METHOD Sixty-three depressed clients were assigned to either NT or CBT. The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) and Outcome Questionnaire-45.2 (OQ-45.2) were ...

There are ~900,000 new HIV infections among women every year, representing nearly half of all new HIV infections globally. In the US, nearly one-fifth of all new HIV infections occur among women, and women from racial and ethnic minority communities experience disproportionately high rates of new HIV infections. Thus, there is a need to develop and implement effective HIV prevention strategies ...