Exploring Narrative Structure with MMORPG Quest Stories
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چکیده
In this paper we present a corpus of quest stories taken from a popular commercial Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Game (MMORPG). These stories are open-ended narrative, but anchored to formal, in-game actions and entities, providing valuable constraint as a narrative corpus. We present two preliminary experiments establishing baselines for evaluating similar patterns and content across the corpus.
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