This study aims to decompose plot structures of stories in narrative multimedia (i.e., creative works that contain and are distributed through multimedia). Since a story is interwoven with main plots subplots primary ancillary lines), decomposing into multiple lines enables us analyze how events the allocated logically connected. For decomposition, existing studies employed character networks s...

Note: The information regarding the pharmaceutical sector and the company are accurate as collected from various cited sources. The problem contains all the characteristics of the underlying problem faced by Pfizer. It has been simplified for the purpose of keeping the model size manageable as a case study and the data has been altered for reasons of confidentiality. The authors created the cas...

The creation of fictional stories is a very complex task that usually implies a creative process where the author has to combine characters, conflicts and plots to create an engaging narrative. This work presents a simulated environment with hundreds of characters that allows the study of coherent and interesting literary archetypes (or behaviours), plots and sub-plots. We will use this environ...

Little is known about the on-line evaluation of information relating to well-known story characters during text comprehension. For example, it is not clear in how much detail readers represent character-based information, and the time course over which this information is utilized during on-line language comprehension. We describe an event-related potential (ERP) study (Experiment 1) and an eye...

This study involves automatically identifying the sociolinguistic characteristics of fictional characters in plays by analyzing their written “speech”. We discuss three binary classification problems: predicting the characters’ gender (male vs. female), age (young vs. old), and socioeconomic standing (upper-middle class vs. lower class). The text corpus used is an annotated collection of August...

Male and female high school and college students viewed a DVD about a love story. Youth who more readily empathized with media characters were more likely to perceive same-sex characters as role models and were better able to understand the story content. The findings suggest that fantasy empathy, in which viewers become deeply involved in narratives, may hold a key regarding the influence of m...