simulation and contrivance in hariri’s maghamat shaker amery * â  â abstractâ in the fourth century after hijra (a.h), many kinds of rhetoric arts became common and popular in literary texts. in that cultural atmosphere, the maghamat emerged. badi al-zaman al-hamadani was the first to write the maghamat in arabic literature in the second half of the fourth century (a.h). the principal recurre...

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We present the Narrator, an NLG component used for the generation of narratives in a digital storytelling system. We describe how the Narrator works and show some examples of generated stories.

OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AALTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 11000, FI-00076 AALTO http://www.aalto.fi Author Mohammed Al-Rawi Name of the dissertation Manuscript submitted 1 April 2010 Manuscript revised 5 August 2010 Date of the defence 3 December 2010 Article dissertation (summary + original articles) Monograph Faculty Department Field of research Opponent(s) Superviso...

Personal narratives typically involve a narrator who participates in a sequence of events in the past. The narrator is therefore present at two narrative levels: (1) the extradiegetic level, where the act of narration takes place, with the narrator addressing an audience directly; and (2) the diegetic level, where the events in the story take place, with the narrator as a participant (usually t...

Requirements visualization can contribute to requirements comprehension through the creation of conceptual models. However, these models can become hard to read and current tool support is minimal. Applying the right visualization mechanisms can help construct models that are more readable. To such extent, we present the Interactive Narrator tool: a web application that helps practitioners anal...