One of the most important parts of a story is its ending. This is the point in which all open questions and conflicts in the narrative must be resolved. This paper presents a dynamic resolution method for interactive stories. The type of stories we support allows the user to participate as one of the characters and influence dynamically the development of the plot. The rest of the cast consists...

The interaction of literary and linguistic approaches in the process analyzing a text makes it possible to penetrate into depth artistic work. This is relevance study. authors conducted philological analysis ethical S. Zweig’s short story “The Governess” using these approaches. following means were identified characterize psychological tension characters: climax introspection. linguistic-stylis...

Whilst many numeric methods, such as AIC and deviance, exist for assessing or comparing model fit, diagrammatic methods are few. We present here a diagnostic plot, which we refer to `Quantile Band plot', that may be used visually assess the suitability of given count data model. In case diagnosed inadequacy, plot has unique feature conveying precise information on character violation, hence poi...

This paper explores the application of computer simulation techniques to the fields of literary studies and narratology by developing a model for plot structure and characterization. Using a corpus of 19th Century British novels as a case study, the author begins with a descriptive quantitative analysis of character names, developing a set of stylized facts about the way narratives allocate att...

the academic community has long noticed the resemblance between mongolian and turkic epics. some believe that the mongols and the turkic people share a narrative tradition that accounts for their commonalities. such a tradition arises from the period of time when ancestors of these two groups lived together in central asia and south siberia (cf. nekljudov 1981). one could also assert that mongo...

Storytelling is an ubiquitous phenomenon in human culture. We tell stories to entertain, explain, and illustrate. The production of novel stories is undeniably an act of creativity in humans. How can an autonomous computer system create novel story content? What can we learn about human creativity in the investigation of computational models of story generation? Relevant past work in story gene...

Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative – an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act interactive drama. We are completing a three year collaboration to engineer a novel architecture that integrates emotional, interactive character behavior, drama-managed plot and shallow natural...

Computer-based systems for interactive dramas allow the user to participate actively in the unfolding of a story in a virtual world. Various approaches have been explored for facilitating the human author in creating computer-based interactive dramas. Most of these approaches can be categorized as either story-centric or character-centric designs. In this work, we present a new framework that i...

The idea that an author's heritage and environment can be reflected in the plotline of his/her narratives and in the development of each character is thought-provoking; while it is true that an author's voice may not be the same as the narrator's voice, the work is still influenced by the author and his/her perception of the characters, their world, and their journey. The characters expand from...