Many works (of both fiction and non-fiction) span multiple, intersecting narratives, each of which constitutes a story in its own right. In this work I introduce the task of multiple narrative disentanglement (MND), in which the aim is to tease these narratives apart by assigning passages from a text to the sub-narratives to which they belong. The motivating example I use is David Foster Wallac...

The generative summarization of textual stories has been one of the goals of computational narratology since attempts at full semantic NLU in the ’70s. Our NLP group has recently created several systems for multidocument news summarization using purely statistical methods. Between these poles, there may be an unexplored avenue where knowledge of story structure can give partial, yet useful sema...

We present SCHEHERAZADE, a foundational platform for narrative intelligence that formally represents stories. The system draws upon prior theoretical work on the morphology of narrative without imposing a particular narrative domain or task a priori. Instead, while keeping narrative semantics separate and immutable, it provides a framework for the tools that build upon it to define world knowle...

As more and more countries start to provide audio description services for a growing range of products and events, research into this new discipline is growing and diversifying as well. Two questions that seem to be at the heart of much of this research focus on what should be described and how this should be done, in other words on content selection and formulation of the description. The pres...

In this article, we advocate a bottom-up direction for the methodological modeling of interdisciplinary research based on concrete interactions among individuals within interdisciplinary projects. Drawing on our experience in Hearing the Voice (a cross-disciplinary project on auditory verbal hallucinations running at Durham University), we focus on the dynamic if also problematic integration of...

Abstract With the development of economic globalization and information age, architecture has gradually become a kind seal politics, capital culture, is divorced from spirit life experience existing places in region. Therefore, field constantly seeks new research paradigm interdisciplinary perspective reconsiders creative activities architecture. From late last century, with introduction by pos...

Abstract This Introduction provides an overview of a cognitive-narratological approach to characters and characterization in New Testament narratives. We begin by comparing conventional cognitive approaches characterization, delineating practical methodology designed sensitize readers variety interpretative possibilities that arise from the turn within narratology. Afterwards, we apply three wa...

Can a form of play be used to portray the past in popular culture? person engage such an act and acquire agency particular time history? Play constitutes many forms—but for sake this paper, it will context video games. Using two main schools thought study these, narratology ludology, I intend highlight potential games not only recreate history but also interact with events how they can provide ...