This paper introduces Linguistic Style Improvisation, a theory and 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 improvise. ...

“anzarna”, in the verse number 104 of the surah baqare, is a term that god recommend to believers use of it instead of word “raena”. so that they can cut excuse of jesses for mocking believers. this verse has been come after soliman and haroot and maroot in the verses number 103 and 102 of surah baqare. on the other hand the term nazar with different configuration and structure including “fanzo...

The VICTEC (Virtual ICT with Empathic Characters) project provides an opportunity to explore the use of animated characters in a virtual environment for educational issues such as bullying behaviour. Our research aim was to evaluate whether an early prototype of the VICTEC demonstrator could provide useful information about character and story believability, physical aspects of the characters a...

This study examines the ideological content of six internationally-used ELT textbooks, three British and three American. Applying the theory and procedures of critical discourse analysis (CDA), three aspects of the conversations in the textbooks, i.e. content, relations, and positions were examined. Results suggest that in terms of content, British textbooks tend to entertain the students while...

In order for the author to create his/her intended effects using interactive narratives, the user has to be able to understand his/her experience as designed by the author. In this paper, we argue that a key desideratum for interactive narrative frameworks is to model the characters’ motivational consistency during the interaction. This work reports an empirical study for evaluating the importa...

surrealism is a literary school originating in europe, which found its way into the literature of other nations ,including arabic literature and thus having an impact on them. egypt is one of the world's leading arab nations in fiction. egyptian writers’ familiarity with european literature opened a new gate for the literary currents. naguib mahfouz, the great egyptian writer and nobel prize wi...