In this paper we present a corpus of quest stories taken from a popular commercial Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Game (MMORPG). These stories are open-ended narrative, but anchored to formal, in-game actions and entities, providing valuable constraint as a narrative corpus. We present two preliminary experiments establishing baselines for evaluating similar patterns and content acros...

Our goal with this paper is three-fold. We want to increase awareness of inquiry-based learning by presenting the strategy we use to develop and implement lessons and activities. We describe our approach to structuring lessons in mathematics in a way that engages the students by using language and constructs they are familiar with from other non-science classes. Finally, we include samples from...

At each stage in transmission of a tale from generation to generation, modifications take place but something remains. Thus there is a potential for material to be retained from a time in the distant past when the narrative was embedded in a total oral worldview or cosmology. This article introduces the analogical discovery method and uses it to build up a structure based on a group of tales fr...

The paper illustrates Narrative Space in the context of our completed work in a former industrial site that has been converted into a brickworks museum. Located near Berlin it is the largest of its kind in Europe. Narrative Space is used to describe the synthesis of singular or multiple stories with a spatial experience, made perceptible to an audience through a narrative structure. The illustr...

The Liquid Narrative research group at North Carolina State University, a multidisciplinary group of faculty and students seeking to create interactive narrative environments. To do this, we are designing and building intelligent systems capable of creating structured interaction within virtual worlds that achieves the same kind of cognitive and affective responses to interactive stories as tha...

Aiming at a formal representation of narratives that captures the intuitive notion of being the same story, we discuss the comparison of two different formal frameworks.

Getting a machine to understand human narratives has been a classic challenge for NLP and AI. This paper proposes a new representation for the temporal structure of narratives. The representation is parsimonious, using temporal relations as surrogates for discourse relations. The narrative models, called Temporal Discourse Models, are treestructured, where nodes include abstract events interpre...

this article tends to analyze “the death of zahhak”; one of the paintings of the great shahnama “shahnama of shah tahmasb” which is done by soltan mohammad; based on semiotic and structural methods. by using library resources and content analyzing with the help of “actantial model” as a tool, coincidence of the narrative structure is studied in this persian painting. first of all, based on one ...

Narrative, the creation of imaginative projects and experiences displayed in expressions of movement and voice, is how human cooperative understanding grows. Human understanding places the character and qualities of objects and events of interest within stories that portray intentions, feelings, and ambitions, and how one cares about them. Understanding the development of narrative is therefore...

Computer games can involve narrative and story elements integrating different forms of interactivity and using different strategies for combining interaction with non-interactive story and narrative elements. While some forms of interactive narrative involve simple selection between fixed narrative sequences, computer games more typically involve the integration of narrative with game play base...