Computational Narratology is an emerging field within the Digital Humanities. In this paper, we tackle the problem of extracting temporal information as a basis for event extraction and ordering, as well as further investigations of complex phenomena in narrative texts. While most existing systems focus on news texts and extract explicit temporal information exclusively, we show that this appro...

This thesis is about the discovery of structural similarities across narrative texts. We will describe a method that is based on event alignments created automatically on automatically preprocessed texts. This opens up a path to large-scale empirical research on structural similarities across texts. Structural similarities are of interest for many areas in the humanities and social sciences. We...

The main aim of this paper is to tell stories about interactions between European voyagers and Aboriginal people in New Holland (mainland Australia) and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) at the end of the eighteenth century. I start, however, with the terms in the title. First, “texts” and “discipline of praxis”.1 The discipline of praxis is, of course, history, which by professional convention is e...

The evolution of digital technologies in all sectors of society, including education, implies a paradigm shift in teaching methods. In Portugal, the new national curriculum for Portuguese language teaching at Elementary School level highlights the role of technologies, considering that these new methods, “require mastery of multiple literacies, namely digital and computer literacies – associate...

This report investigates the hypothesis: patterns in multimedia discourses can be used to specify and extract machine-executable representations of media content that capture important elements of stories. Multimedia Information Systems are amongst the more pervasive of information systems. The physical and conceptual task of synthesising two or more modalities of communication-visual and lingu...

This article explores the often perplexing experience of being an epilepsy surgery candidate, as portrayed in four book-length accounts: Laura Doermer's Moritz mein Sohn (Moritz my son, 1990), David B.'s L'ascension du haut mal (The ascent of the high evil, 1996; published in English as Epileptic, 2003), Ray Robinson's Electricity (2006), and Alberto Capitta's Il giardino non esiste (The garden...

De-identification of personal health information is essential in order not to require written patient informed consent. Previous de-identification methods were proposed using natural language processing technology in order to remove the identifiers in clinical narrative text, although these methods only focused on narrative text written in English. In this study, we propose a regular expression...