We present an exploratory study that surveys 287 people from a wide range of ages and cultural backgrounds on both their attitudes towards robots and which of 12 fictional films portraying robots they have seen. Our preliminary findings suggest a relationship between overall movie watching and NARS scores (more robot movies seen correlates with more positive attitudes towards robots), and betwe...

Research in statistical machine translation (SMT) is largely driven by formal translation tasks, while translating informal text is much more challenging. In this paper we focus on SMT for the informal genre of dialogues, which has rarely been addressed to date. Concretely, we investigate the effect of dialogue acts, speakers, gender, and text register on SMT quality when translating fictional ...

Reading fiction is a major component of intellectual life, yet it has proven difficult to study experimentally. One aspect of literature that has recently come to light is perspective embedding ("she thought I left" embedding her perspective on "I left"), which seems to be a defining feature of fiction. Previous work (Whalen et al., 2012) has shown that increasing levels of embedment affects th...

The subjective nature of gender inequality motivates the analysis and comparison of data from real and fictional human interaction. We present a computational extension of the Bechdel test: A popular tool to assess if a movie contains a male gender bias, by looking for two female characters who discuss about something besides a man. We provide the tools to quantify Bechdel scores for both gende...

Every human has psychological conditions including personality types, and it is said that fictional characters are reflections of actual people. This research aimed to find a character named Meilin “Mei” Lee’s conscious unconscious types. used Lee as an object the Turning Red movie source data with its action dialogues done by primary data. To this types theory proposed Carl Jung qualitative de...

in a fictional movie, shadow is not only a technical and thematic concept, but also one of the most illustrative and expressing aesthetic elements of the movie. shadows vast dimensions have led to various discussions and studies along the history of cinema. the main theory of this essay is that a shadow is a comprehensible phenomenon whose interpretation and understanding are greatly essential ...

there is a semi-proverbial expression in some persian literary texts that has not yet indexed in none of persian dictionaries –such as loqat-nameh or any other proverb references and has been totally neglected. accordingly it seems necessary being explained.  it has been mentioned under different topics such as ibn-e hâjib’s lamb, ibn-e hâjib’s sheep, ibn-e hâjib’s ewe in divans of adib-ol-mamâ...

This study analyzes the movie Mr. Nobody (Dormael, 2009) within framework of chaos philosophy, tragedy, and complex storytelling in cinema. The takes place a science fiction universe where humankind has found immortality, 2092. main character movie, Nemo, is only last mortal this universe. focusing on different life experiences that could potentially occur, moving through choice Nemo had to mak...

ôbjective: ône of non-confrontative methods for treatment of difficult issues such as grief is movie therapy which is an advanced form of bibliotherapy. the present study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of group movie therapy (gmt) on reduction of intensity of grief experience in bereaved adolescent girls. methods: this was a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest and a follow up...