Narrative-centered learning environments offer significant potential for supporting guided exploratory learning. By taking advantage of the inherent structure of narrative, narrative-centered environments provide students with engaging worlds in which they actively participate in motivating story-based problemsolving activities. Two key challenges posed by narrativecentered environments for gui...

Ever since scholars in the humanities have studied computer games, the relationship between play and narrative has been a much contested issue. Much dissent stems from incompatible basic assumptions about play and narrative, which, this paper argues, can be reconciled by a formalist approach to games and narrative on a structural level. First, event structures and story structures are shown to ...

“Focalization” is a narrative discourse technique that produces different narrative structures based on choosing unique perspectives from which to present a story. This study designs a focalization mechanism and presents an experimental implementation. The proposed system functions as part of our integrated narrative generation system (INGS). In addition, the approach computationally extends th...

Current South African Road Accident Fund (RAF) legislation requires a medical determination of the seriousness of injuries sustained in motor vehicle accidents to determine whether the claimant is entitled to a claim for general damages. Such medical assessments are submitted in the form of RAF 4 Serious Injury Assessment Reports. Contested claims for serious injury are referred to the Health P...

Signed languages such as American Sign Language (ASL) are natural human languages that share all of the core properties of spoken human languages but differ in the modality through which they are communicated. Neuroimaging and patient studies have suggested similar left hemisphere (LH)-dominant patterns of brain organization for signed and spoken languages, suggesting that the linguistic nature...

A narrative is an ordered sequence of connected events, usually involving multiple participants. Most existing visualization techniques represent narratives as a node-link graph where a sequence of links shows the evolution of causal and temporal relationships between characters in the narrative. These techniques make a number of simplifying assumptions about the narrative structure, however. T...

This paper models narrative as a complex adaptive system in which the temporal sequence of events constituting a story emerges out of cascading local interactions between nodes in a social network. The approach is not intended as a general theory of narrative, but rather as a particular generative mechanism relevant to several academic communities: (1) literary critics and narrative theorists i...

Previous approaches to computational models of narrative have successfully considered the internal coherence of the narrative’s structure. However, narratives are also externally focused and authors often design their stories to affect users in specific ways. In order to better characterize the audience in the process of modeling narrative, we introduce Indexter: a computational model of the Ev...

Corresponding author: Yves Bestgen, PSP/PSOR Place du Cardinal Mercier, 10 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgique Tel: (+32) 10 473005 Fax: (+32) 10 473774 [email protected] ABSTRACT Signaling the structure of a discourse using linguistic devices is at least as important in second language production as in one’s mother tongue. Still, very little is known about the difficulties second languag...