In this paper we review different techniques which can be used to achieve interactive storytelling in games, most notably the employment of planning algorithms to decide which and how events should be presented to the player at a given time, and the definition of non playing characters actions and behaviours as a response to the player’s actions. Furthermore we will consider game world with mor...

PURPOSE One feature of literate language, noun phrase elaboration, was examined in the oral fictional narratives of school-aged children. METHOD Two narratives were elicited from 5-, 8- and 11-year-old children, 1 in response to a picture sequence and 1 in response to a single picture. Noun phrases were categorized into 4 types. RESULTS Simple designating noun phrases were produced by all c...

The lognormal distribution had long been thought to be the most appropriate probability distribution for Japanese sentence length distributions. Yet this view had been supported only by few researches with sparse sampling data and reasoning contradicting language reality. In order to show a more realistic approach, we analyzed a substantial number of samples. At first, 150 essays and short stor...

This study intends to exam Clive Bell’s theory of significant form. For Bell, a painting could not be a work of art if line and color were used to recount anecdotes, express ideas, and indicate the lifestyle of an age. In his influential book Art, Bell claimed that William Powell Frith’s famous narrative painting The Railway Station was not a work of art. This paper used Frith’s painting as the...

regarding the literary historical debates, one of the main concerns of modern historiography is the way of representing the concept of reality within the framework of a coherent narrative, a reality that is only achievable through the process of narrative that is supposed to be constructive and ordering. therefore, in order to examine this ordering process of narrative in james joyce's novel, a...

Knowledge of the molecular interactions of human proteins within tissues is important for identifying their tissue-specific roles and for shedding light on tissue phenotypes. However, many protein-protein interactions (PPIs) have no tissue-contexts. The TissueNet database bridges this gap by associating experimentally-identified PPIs with human tissues that were shown to express both pair-mates...

During recent years, we have observed a rapidly growing interest in the design and fabrication of novel types of photonic-crystal structures possessing large absolute band gaps. The study of various geometries of three-dimensional photonic crystals and different ways to enlarge their absolute band gaps is a key issue in the physics of periodic dielectric structures, where different polarization...

The narrative turn in the social sciences has affected a variety of disciplines and inspired interest in narrative analysis from a range of methodological perspectives. This article provides an overview of the narrative turn, summarizing historic narrative trends in the social sciences which led to the current interest in narrative analysis across a variety of disciplines. I discuss general co...