This essay explores the collaborative process of creating poem ‘The Refugee’s Tale’, which was initially read at a live event and subsequently published in first Refugee Tales anthology (Comma Press, 2016). It presents metatextual interviewing refugee to obtain their story, Tale’ itself, multifaceted aspects creative composition long poem. examines variety literary ethical challenges from persp...

A writer’s style depends not just on personal traits but also on her intent and mental state. In this paper, we show how variants of the same writing task can lead to measurable differences in writing style. We present a case study based on the story cloze task (Mostafazadeh et al., 2016a), where annotators were assigned similar writing tasks with different constraints: (1) writing an entire st...

This paper describes a framework for building story traces (compact global views of a narrative) and story projections (selections of key story elements) and their applications in digital storytelling. Word and sense properties are extracted using the WordNet lexical database enhanced with Prolog inference rules and a number of lexical transformations. Inference rules are based on navigation in...

30 Stainlßss Steßl Focus 01/2016 Acciaierie Valbruna has come a very long way since its founding in 1925 as a small company specialising in forged equipment for use in agriculture, and after experiencing total devastation from allied bombing during the second world war. Following a rebuild and enlargement of the company’s works in the immediate postwar period, at the end of the 1950s there was ...

Bile acids have been traditionally viewed as detergent molecules involved in the solubilization and absorption of lipids and lipidsoluble vitamins from the intestines. However, as a result of intensive research over the past two decades, bile acids are now viewed as endocrine signaling molecules that activate specific nuclear receptors and G-protein coupled receptors regulating nutrient metabol...

Interactive storytelling (IS) models, either implicitly or explicitly, have had to deal with three major aspects in their implementations, regardless of their technology: (1) how to define story events, i.e., the pieces of information that constitutes the content of any story; (2) how to present story events, i.e., the algorithm that is used to convey this content to the user; and (3) how the u...