BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a common psychiatric condition associated with self-harm. Self-harm is poorly understood and there is currently no treatment for acute presentations with self-harm urges. OBJECTIVES By using a new task (Self-relevant Task; SRT), to explore emotions related to one's own person (PERSON task) and body (BODY task), to study the correlations of t...

Abstract The current study examined the effects of task condition (TC; single vs. dual) and proficiency level (PL) on self-monitoring second language (L2) speakers. Data were collected from sixty-six female L2 learners English performing two speaking tasks under conditions. While performance in single-task involved only narrating a picture-based oral narrative, dual-task same narrative as well ...

AI planning has featured in a number of Interactive Storytelling prototypes: since narratives can be naturally modelled as a sequence of actions it has been possible to exploit state of the art planners in the task of narrative generation. However the characteristics of a “good” plan, such as optimality, aren’t necessarily the same as those of a “good” narrative, where errors and convoluted seq...

Representing narratives, and reasoning about them, has been a prominent theme in logical formalisms for dynamical systems (e.g. 9, 5, 2]). However, the existing literature provides a rather limited concept of what a narrative is; the examples all concern linear action sequences, sometimes including incomplete information about action occurrence times. The point of departure of this paper is the...

BACKGROUND Various malfunctions involving working memory, semantics, prediction error, and dopamine neuromodulation have been hypothesized to cause disorganized speech and delusions in schizophrenia. Computational models may provide insights into why some mechanisms are unlikely, suggest alternative mechanisms, and tie together explanations of seemingly disparate symptoms and experimental findi...

Inquiry-based learning encourages students to pose questions, find and interpret multiple pieces of evidence and to present conclusions in a coherent presentation. The goal of this research is to demonstrate that narrative and story can support inquiry learning on a number of different levels. Characters who undertake familiar inquiry processes, such as a detective or an investigative journalis...

For some people with bipolar disorder, excessive self-trust in the manic phase conflicts with trusting themselves over time, and radical shifts in mood and activity can undermine their trustworthiness. Difficulties in trust interface with the ability to construct a narrative. Although the narrative self may be (for anyone) fragmented and disjointed, it can nevertheless provide an unfolding rati...

Most popular models of narratives and narrative analyses have been drawn on native stories, yet EFL learners’ narratives have not received due narrative analysis. The present study then aims at scrutinizing the structure of personal English stories as told by EFL learners. To this aim, three hundred narratives were collected through classroom discussions and interviews. Qualitative analysis met...

Script knowledge plays a central role in text understanding and is relevant for a variety of downstream tasks. In this paper, we consider two recent datasets which provide a rich and general representation of script events in terms of paraphrase sets. We introduce the task of mapping event mentions in narrative texts to such script event types, and present a model for this task that exploits ri...