The QUEST model of question answering is a computational-cognitive model designed to describe a person’s mental narrative comprehension process, which predicts behavioral responses to openended questions about the narrative. The model is based around a QUEST knowledge structure, a directed graph that captures the story’s events and the causal and goal-oriented relationships between them. We pre...

To better support the creation of narrative-centered tools, developers need a flexible framework to integrate, catalog, select, and reuse narrative models. Computational models of narrative enable the creation of software tools to aid narrative processing, analysis, and generation. Narrativecentered tools explicitly or implicitly embody one or more models of narrative by their definition. Howev...

abstract: myth is as old as mankind; it has transformed and lasted in the form of stories, and anecdotes, together with literary and artistic works. one cannot ignore the presence of myths in culture, literature and art (especially cinema) every era ranging from the age of aeschylus, euripides and aristophanes to the contemporary age of cinema has a firm attachment with myth- of all historical ...

This paper addresses the prosodic feature of pause and its distribution in spontaneous narrative in relation to the role it plays in signaling narrative structure. Pause duration and pause occurrence were taken as variables for the present analysis. The results indicate that both variables consistently mark narrative section boundaries, suggesting thus that pause is a very important structuring...

Interactive narrative is a form of storytelling that adapts to actions performed by users who assume the roles of story characters. To date, interactive narratives are built by hand. In this paper, we introduce SCHEHERAZADE, an intelligent system that automatically creates an interactive narrative about any topic from crowdsourced narratives. Our system leverages the experience and creativity o...

history - narrative interaction is one of the most important issues have being discussed in critical philosophy of history. a historian normally compiles the historical events, as the essential parts of history recording, and imports them besides some connectors through a narrative structure.  the existing relation between such a narrative and the reality is of considerable concerns which are e...

Recent years have seen growing interest in narrative-centered learning environments. Leveraging the inherent structure of narrative, narrativecentered learning environments offer significant potential for inquiry-based learning in which students actively participate in engaging story-based problem-solving. A key challenge posed by narrative-centered learning is orchestrating all of the events i...

In this paper, we investigate the distribution of narrative schemas (Chambers and Jurafsky, 2009) throughout different document categories and how the structure of narrative schemas is conditioned by document category, the converse of the relationship explored in Simonson and Davis (2015). We evaluate cross-category narrative differences by assessing the predictability of verbs in each category...

Despite showing an overtly simple structure, the semantic process in classic literary-narrative discourse conforms to complicated semiotic systems. As a result, semio-semantics is deemed as one of the most scientific, reliable tools since it helps intradiscursive semio-textual propositions be phenomenologically, and even epistemologically, analyzed. Consequently, the narrative discourse in “The...

Drama in games is created by the interplay of the narrative structure of story and the ludic structure of challenges. In this paper, we combine Csikszentmihalyi’s model of engagement and flow with Freytag’s pyramid, a model of narrative structure. Using this combination, we explore the dramatic structure of Halo: Combat Evolved, comparing ludic and narrative structures at each stage of the game...