This article presents an extension to a Multi-Level Secure (MLS) data model that requires the classification of data and users into multiple security levels. In MLS systems, cover stories allow information provided to users at lower security levels to differ from information provided to users at higher security levels. Previous versions of the MLS model did not permit cover stories for key attr...

Current approaches to story generation do not utilize models of human affect to create stories with dramatic arc, suspense, and surprise. This paper describes current and future work towards computational models of affective responses to stories for the purpose of augmenting computational story generators. I propose two cognitively plausible models of suspense and surprise responses to stories....

User stories form the heart of the Extreme Programming methodology planning game. In its turn, Extreme Programming is one of the supporting pillars of the wider Agile Software Development process. The user stories form a set of central work products that determine the software development processes. In the spirit of Extreme Programming the production of user stories is kept as simple as possibl...

This panel will present and discuss how quantitative data analysis can help us to tell stories that bring deeper meaning to our research. In order to tell stories successfully, the researcher must understand the variety of data analysis methods available and know when to apply each kind of method. This panel will focus on these questions: • How can we tell stories about “unreal” phenomena and s...

This article explores the ways in which stories serve a structuring function in three Portuguese American memoirs. The article also examines the use of stories as a way to weave together the gap between memory and inherited memory (Hirsch, 2012), arguing that the stories produce texts that carefully choreograph between inherited family stories and inherited cultural memories, creating a layerin...

A computational model of story understanding is presented that is able to process stories consisting of multiple scripts. This model is built from subsymbolic neural networks, but unlike previous such models, it can handle stories of variable structure and length. The model can successfully parse and paraphrase script-based stories that share long sequences of common events, with no confusion b...

Stories capture the characteristics of the design space and audience that designers and engineers need to understand to build a complete and useful software experience. A story is a design communication tool that transcends the cultural divides of multidisciplinary teams and intertwines a technology with its user’s goals. This article describes how stories are powerful tools in software design,...

We address the problem dealing with skewed data, and propose a method for estimating effective training stories for the topic tracking task. For a small number of labelled positive stories, we extract story pairs which consist of positive and its associated stories from bilingual comparable corpora. To overcome the problem of a large number of labelled negative stories, we classify them into so...

hen the Sisters arrived in the U.S. carrying only their ...” Many formation programs for health care ministry leaders begin by retelling the stories of the founders, then inviting participants to tell the stories of their own connections to Catholic health care. This is because we are familiar with the power of story to inspire, to create meaning, to deepen identity, purpose and belonging, and ...

Increase of digital storage capacity enabled the creation of large-scale news video archives. To make full use of the archive, it is necessary to grasp the development and dependencies of news stories. Considering this problem, we investigate tracking and re-ranking methodologies of news stories. The archive used as a test-bed consists of more than 30,000 news stories. This paper proposes a nov...