This study investigates humour strategies in improvised theatrical fiction. Improvised theatre is a type of data that has thus far remained unexplored by linguistic studies, but which provides interesting insight into the characteristics fictional texts and, more specifically, relation between dialogues fiction and spontaneous conversation. The starting point for analysis participation framewor...

How can we design good goals for arbitrarily intelligent agents? Reinforcement learning (RL) is a natural approach. Unfortunately, RL does not work well for generally intelligent agents, as RL agents are incentivised to shortcut the reward sensor for maximum reward – the so-called wireheading problem. In this paper we suggest an alternative to RL called value reinforcement learning (VRL). In VR...

When talking about unfair competition, business ethics has to be involved, which means to judge whether the competition is fair or not is very much ethical debate. And its connotation is also evolving along with the development of social economy, so in this sense, defining “fair competition” or “unfair competition” is very difficult. Therefore, whether it is related to international conventions...

The notion of ‘wireheading’, or direct reward centre stimulation of the brain, is a wellknown concept in neuroscience. In this paper, we examine the corresponding issue of reward (utility) function integrity in artificially intelligent machines. We survey the relevant literature and propose a number of potential solutions to ensure the integrity of our artificial assistants. Overall, we conclud...

When thinking about the future, people tend to envision dramatically advanced technology, architecture that resembles something from another planet, and social norms that have shifted in radical ways—all of it vivid, dynamic, and exciting. What people don’t realize is that the story they tell themselves about the future actually has rules. The mind applies these rules to ensure that people arri...

Descriptions of dramatic scenes occur frequently in fiction books, not only describing the layout and contents of a scene, but often including details such as the speech articulated by characters in a scene, and the movements and actions performed by the characters. Provided these descriptions can be accurately identified and interpreted, they serve as instructions for populating three-dimensio...

This paper presents a salience-based technique for the annotation of directly quoted speech from fiction text. In particular, this paper determines to what extent a naïve (without the use of complex machine learning or knowledge-based techniques) scoring technique can be used for the identification of the speaker of speech quotes. The presented technique makes use of a scoring technique, simila...

In my thesis, I examine the discursive space of the detective fiction genre following Kasai Kiyoshi’s periodization in his two-volume seminal work Tantei shōsetsuron (The Theory of Detective Fiction, 1998). I investigate how Japanese detective fiction has developed in relation to Japan’s modernization, industrialization, nationalism, and globalization, specifically in the 1920s-30s, the 1950s-6...

the name of sadegh hedayat(1903-1951) reminds many people of a pioneering author in fiction, with works having a lot of advocates and opponents.  hence, many studies have been conducted regarding his works in the area of stories and translation from french, but his researches on and translations from the pahlavi language has less been noticed and analysed, however, he was one of the leading aut...

tournier, in the novel friday or the other island which can be assigned as the recreation of the novel robinson crusoe by daniel defoe, expresses his own philosophic standpoints by utilizing myths. the writer delineates the solitude and miscellaneous difficulties that the hero of the novel faces, but he depicts the spiritual changing ways in the pacific ocean. making an acquaintance with the is...