This paper proposes an approach for the reconstruction of itineraries extracted from narrative texts. This approach is divided into two main tasks. The first extracts geographical information with natural language processing. Its outputs are annotations of so called expanded entities and expressions of displacement or perception from hiking descriptions. In order to reconstruct a plausible foot...

Speaker identification is the task of attributing utterances to characters in a literary narrative. It is challenging to automate because the speakers of the majority of utterances are not explicitly identified in novels. In this paper, we present a supervised machine learning approach for the task that incorporates several novel features. The experimental results show that our method is more a...

Narrative is a complex discourse unit. Creating it requires “a joint process of event comprehension and language production” (Trabasso & Rodkin, 1994, p.87), and perspective taking, understanding and explaining behaviors and emotions of others. In the present study, it is claimed that these requirements map onto three levels of complexity: 1) Plot complexity reflecting the temporal and thematic...

Off-task behavior is the subject of increasing interest in the AI in Education community. This paper reports on an investigation of the role of offtask behavior in narrative-centered learning environments by examining its interactions with student learning gains and affect. Results from an empirical study of students interacting with the CRYSTAL ISLAND environment indicate that off-task behavio...

In the conception of narrative developed by Labov (Labov, 1972, 1981, 1997; Labov & Waletzky, 1967/1997), the typical narrative is that of personal experience. The core formal element of this type of narrative is its temporal organization, and in particular the juxtaposition of two events that cannot be reversed while preserving the coherence of the story (a “temporal junction” (Labov, 1981, p....