Discovering Social Desires and Conflicts from Subculture Narrative Multimedia

Discovering and visualizing narrative themes

This paper presents a framework for indexing and browsing databases of stories, in particular characterizing and visually exploring each narrative’s thematic content. We introduce a method for discovering thematic content in texts via lexical dissimilarity statistics. A maximumlikelihood algorithm clusters words into pools of similar meaning, using a thesaurus for rough estimates of word sense ...

Resolving Conflicts between Beliefs, Obligations, Intentions, and Desires

This paper provides a logical analysis of conflicts between informational, motivational and deliberative attitudes such as beliefs, obligations, intentions, and desires. The contributions are twofold. First, conflict resolutions are classified based on agent types, and formalized in an extension of Reiter’s normal default logic. Second, several desiderata for conflict resolutions are introduced...

Wishful Thinking: an analysis of conflicts between beliefs and desires

Argumentation Based Resolution of Conflicts between Desires and Normative Goals

Norms represent what ought to be done, and their fulfillment can be seen as benefiting the overall system, society or organisation. However, individual agent goals (desire) may conflict with system norms. If a decision to comply with a norm is determined exclusively by an agent or, conversely, if norms are rigidly enforced, then system performance may be degraded, and individual agent goals may...

Social Position from Narrative Data

This paper develops an individual-level index of human capital, estimated as the potential hourly wage that this might command in the UK in the mid 1990s. It compares the performance of this as a predictor of life chances (in the areas of finance and health) with a conventional class indicator designed for this purpose (the continuous indicator in fact performs approximately as well as the cate...