A Use of Flashback and Foreshadowing for Surprise Arousal in Narrative Using a Plan-Based Approach
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This paper describes work currently in progress to develop a computational method for generating flashback and foreshadowing, specifically targeted at the evocation of surprise in the reader’s mind. Flashback provides a backstory to explain what caused the surprise outcome. Foreshadowing provides an implicit hint about the surprise. Our study focuses on surprise as a cognitive response. The reader’s story construction process is simulated by a plan-based reader model that checks unexpectedness and postdictability of the
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