We report progress on adding affect-detection to a program for virtual dramatic improvisation, monitored by a human director. To aid the director, we have partially implemented emotion detection. within users’ text input. The affect-detection module has been used to help develop an automated virtual actor. The work involves basic research into how affect is conveyed through metaphor and contrib...

Abstract This article outlines the development of a feature-length screenplay adaptation Angela Carter’s short story “Flesh and Mirror,” situating it within critical discussion her metaleptic narrative strategies challenges translating them to screen. The incorporates Japanese stories journalism, which are said be most autobiographical writings. explores attitude life writing highlights dangers...

Despite of the dramatic evolution in high performance computing we still need to devise new efficient algorithms to speed up the search process. In this paper we present a framework for a data-distributed and multithreaded string matching approach in a homogeneous distributed environment. The main idea of this approach is to have multiple agents that concurrently search the text, each one from ...

We study the detection of character types from fictional dialog texts such as screenplays. As approaches based on the analysis of utterances' linguistic properties are not sufficient to identify all fictional character types, we develop an integrative approach that complements linguistic analysis with interactive and communication characteristics, and show that it can improve the identification...

The Dramatica Theory was developed by Melanie Anne Phillips and Chris Huntley and was not researched nor based upon any other theories of story design or analysis. Trademarks Dramatica is a registered trademark of Screenplay Systems Incorporated. Dramatica's terminology has its own grammar with structures, designations , and usages which are reflected in the vocabulary listings. The individual ...

Using real world events as an inspiration source for writing a book or screenplay is done by many authors. We aim to establish a story engine that describes an automated process to transform news events into narrative events, which will help answer our research question: how can we transform ‘real world events’ to ‘narrative events’? The transformation is done by thematic planning, this means t...

In English: Ferguson, Robert. Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun. London: Hutchinson, 1987. Hamsun. Directed by Jan Troell, based on Thorkild Hansen’s novel, screenplay by Per Olov Enquist. Nordic Film Production, 1996. Hamsun, Knut. Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories, 1885 – 1949. Translated and edited by Richard Nelson Current. Columbia/London: University of Missouri Press, 2003. ...