A key challenge in computer-based interactive narrative is the conflict between user agency and authorial control of the story quality. Valuable lessons can be learned from improvisational and especially interactive theatre, where various narrative and interactive strategies have been developed to engage users in the process of co-creating the story. In this paper, we focus on the use of charac...

T. Karkoszka, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Salesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland The aim of the analysis was the assessment of the zinc coating process with application of the authorial methodology which allows in the highest degree to reflect the threats occurring in this process. Findings of the analysis are as follows: factors influencing the requirements fulfilment in the...

The statistical analysis of literary texts has yielded valuable results, not least when it has treated of the frequency patterns of very common words. But, whereas particular frequency patterns have usually been examined as discrete phenomena, it is possible to correlate the frequency profiles of all the very common words, to subject the resulting correlation matrix to eigen analysis, and to pr...

Within information science, neutrality and objectivity have been standard design goals for knowledge organization schemes; designers have seen themselves as compilers, rather than as authors or creators. The organization of resources in the Prelinger Library in San Francisco, however, shows a distinct authorial voice, or unique sense of expression and vision. This voice, in turn, works as a per...

The assumption about the formal and semantic link between language and genre is the starting point of this study. The absurd in speech is analyzed in texts written by N. Gogol and D. Kharms, while absurd genres are tackled on the basis of the narratives of Dostoevsky, Camus and Sabato. The reality of modern times and all aspects of its artistic representations have altered the form and ideology...

This paper proposes a new unsupervised method for decomposing a multi-author document into authorial components. We assume that we do not know anything about the document and the authors, except the number of the authors of that document. The key idea is to exploit the difference in the posterior probability of the Naive-Bayesian model to increase the precision of the clustering assignment and ...

This contrastive study focuses on the functions of first person subject pronouns in economics article introductions in French and English. It combines a qualitative analysis of the way the pronouns are used within a typical CARS (Create a Research Space) -type introduction (Swales 1990, 2004) with a more quantitative concordance-based analysis of the varying authorial roles played by the pronou...

We consider in this paper the problem of complex handwritten page segmentation such as novelist drafts or authorial manuscripts. We propose to use stochastic and contextual models in order to cope with local spatial variability, and to take into account some prior knowledge about the global structure of the document image. The models we propose to use are Markov Random Field models. Using this ...