An interactive narrative is an education, training, or entertainment experience. There are two qualities that make an experience an interactive narrative. To understand those, let us clarify the meanings of interactive and narrative. Interactive: capable of acting on or influencing each other; and Narrative: presentation of events in a purposeful sequence. Thus, the qualities that define an int...

We explore the application of stylometric methods developed for modern texts to rhymed medieval narratives (Jacob van Maerlant and Lodewijk van Velthem, ca. 1260–1330). Because of the peculiarities of medieval text transmission, we propose to use highly frequent rhyme words for authorship attribution. First, we shall demonstrate that these offer important benefits, being relatively content-inde...

This article examines cinematic remembrances of the Atlantic slave trade through the lens of Paul Robeson-starring British film The Song of Freedom (1936). An exceptional visualization of the horrors of the Middle Passage in transatlantic interwar cinema, the production nevertheless recapitulates an abolitionist visual paradigm characterized by lacunae and distortion. Yet, it also serves as an ...

Authorial clustering involves the grouping of documents written by same author or team authors without any prior positive examples an author’s writing style thematic preferences. For authorial on shorter texts (paragraph-length that are typically than conventional documents), document representation is particularly important. We propose a high-level framework which utilizes compact data in late...

This paper describes a foundation for an interface to allow non-technical human authors to collaborate with an automated planning system to design interactive narrative. Drawing from research in advisable and mixed-initiative planning, a domain metatheory is presented that allows for qualitative elaborations of narrative domains. The authors describe a graphical user interface that exploits thi...