Prom Week is a social-simulation videogame driven by the artificial intelligence engine Comme il Faut (CiF). In each level of the game, the player selects social interactions between characters in an effort to achieve socially oriented goals. These social interactions are enacted with hand-authored natural-language dialogue exchanges, called instantiations, which also serve to render the underl...

this article is to analyze the tendency of mirza fath’ali akhoondzadeh to freemasonic circle, his relations to the members of mirza malkam khan’s freemasonry center and his playwriting on the basis of such relations. initially, his tendency to freemasonic cycles in tbilisi and his relations to malkam khan’s freemasonry center have been proved and   his common intellectual elements with malkom k...

as a contemporary fiction writer, bizhan najdi is lessappreciated despite the fact that his short stories are of significant depthand deserve close examination. through the poetic language, “a plant inquarantine” creates a situation which provides a fertile ground to inspect therelation between past and present. a deep analysis of this relationship is themain focus of this paper. in this study,...

Sadegh Hedayat is one of the most renowned contemporary writers whose various works are discussed by many literary critics. His short story "The Case of Chrystal (rock) Salt" is a humorous and satirical story is collected in Tittle-tattle alongside with five more short stories. The narrator of the story explains the history of human civilization and evolution based on his own perspective. “The ...

The Virtual Storyteller is a story generation system based on emergent narrative. Emergent narrative is a method in story generation in which the characters all have their own goals, desires and motivations upon which they base their actions within the story. This way, the story is formed around the characters, instead of the characters adapting themselves to the story. While this does increase...

This paper introduces Linguistic Style Improvisation, a theory and set of algorithms for improvisation of spoken utterances by artiicial agents, with applications to interactive story and dialogue systems. We argue that linguistic style is a key aspect of character, and show how speech act representations common in AI can provide abstract representations from which computer characters can impro...

This paper introduces Linguistic Style Improvisation, a theory and set of algorithms for improvisation of spoken utterances by artificial agents, with applications to interactive story and dialogue systems. We argue that linguistic style is a key aspect of character, and show how speech act representations common in AI can provide abstract representations from which computer characters can impr...

This paper introduces Linguistic Style Improvisation, a theory and set of algorithms for improvisation of spoken utterances by artiicial agents, with applications to interactive story and dialogue systems. We argue that linguistic style is a key aspect of character, and show how speech act representations common in AI can provide abstract representations from which computer characters can impro...

Khosrow and Shirin is the second of five long narrative poems by Nezami and is one of the finest love stories in Persian literature. This story has been examined so far from different aspects and with different approaches. One of the approaches overlooked in the analysis of this story is the process of individuation from Carl Jung's point of view. Therefore the aim of the present paper is to ps...