Global rule induction technique has been successfully used in information extraction (IE) from text documents. In this paper, we employ global rule induction technique to perform information extraction from news video documents. We divide our framework into two levels: shot; and story levels. We use a hybrid algorithm to classify each input video shot into one of the predefined genre types and ...

Story generators typically adopt a pipelined model of generation wherein fabula structure is decided independently and prior to discourse structure. In this paper, we propose a novel story generator, PLOTSHOT, capable of reasoning over discourse materials during fabula generation such that these materials meaningfully constrain the development of a causally and intentionally coherent story. PLO...

“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...

Although story mapping strategy has been shown to be beneficial in many reading comprehension classes, the benefits of this technique have not been thoroughly investigated in L2 writing research. The small number of previous studies (e.g., Li, 2007; Brunner, 2010) have found the potential benefits of using story mapping strategy on students’ writing performance, but they did not focus on differ...

A beam-column element based on the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory is researched for nonlinear dynamic analysis of reinforced concrete (RC) structural element. Stiffness matrix of this element is obtained by using rigidity method. A solution technique that included nonlinear dynamic substructure procedure is developed for dynamic analyses of RC frames. A predicted-corrected form of the Bossak-α met...