Different stories

Bias In Wikipedia: Different Links, Different Stories

We attempt to uncover the latent biases in different narratives on Wikipedia by investigating the link structure of the within-Wikipedia link graphs generated from a seed article of interest. The case study presented in this report is the Wikipedia article entitled “ArabIsraeli Conflict”. We perform three experiments on this dataset: 1) hierarchical clustering on personalized PageRank vectors f...

Deep metazoan phylogeny: when different genes tell different stories.

Molecular phylogenetic analyses have produced a plethora of controversial hypotheses regarding the patterns of diversification of non-bilaterian animals. To unravel the causes for the patterns of extreme inconsistencies at the base of the metazoan tree of life, we constructed a novel supermatrix containing 122 genes, enriched with non-bilaterian taxa. Comparative analyses of this supermatrix an...

Telling stories about stories.

I want to tell you a story. This is a story about stories. As in any good story, we’re going to wander down a few storied paths. One of the paths leads back to 3 award-winning stories.* Remarkable stories by remarkable physicians who take seriously the power of stories—who have written powerful stories. Another path is about the importance of stories for human health and well-being from the per...

Undestanding Stories in Different Languages with GETA-RUN

Micro Stories and Mega Stories

Technology, especially multimedia technology, is changing the way we tell stories. We are all familiar with letters, articles, and books, but new Internet technology has led to two novel forms of storytelling that we call micro stories and mega stories. Micro stories are the short bits of text and images that we use to tell our friends about our daily life, what we had for lunch, and the funny ...