This article explores the narrative relationship between three key figures in the Gospel of John: Jesus, Judas, and Peter. As these characters interact, patterns of contrast gradually emerge. A literary "character" is the sum of "external signs" presented by a text that "correspond to and reveal an otherwise hidden inner nature." Literary characters are therefore complexes of personal traits th...

People tracking provides the basis for automatic monitoring. This service can help people with disabilities or the elderly live independently by providing day-to-day information to physicians and family. The Narrator system uses information generated by a tracker to generate concise, scalable summaries of daily movement activity. We demonstrate output from the Narrator as well as the workings o...

Most storytelling systems to date rely on manually coded knowledge, the cost of which usually restricts such systems to operate within a few domains where knowledge has been engineered. Open Story Generation systems are capable of learning knowledge necessary for telling stories in a given domain. In this paper, we describe a technique that generates and communicates stories in language with di...

The development of virtual story-telling is an ever ongoing process. As long as it does not perform on the same level as a human storyteller, there is room for improvement. The Virtual Storyteller, a project of the HMI department of the University of Twente, uses a Text-to-Speech application that creates synthetic speech from text input. It is definitely not a trivial matter to make synthetic s...

In this paper, we describe the results of the evaluation of a Virtual Character, used as a human-like, automated narrator with focus on the signaling of suspenseful situations within stories to the Virtual Narrator’s audience. Signaling is done via facial expression and gestures, driven by an underlying story examination mechanism. This mechanism uses an automatic generated story to get points ...

We present the Narrator, a Natural Language Generation component used in a digital storytelling system. The system takes as input a formal representation of a story plot, in the form of a causal network relating the actions of the characters to their motives and their consequences. Based on this input, the Narrator generates a narrative in Dutch, by carrying out tasks such as constructing a Doc...

This paper presents a corpus targeting evaluative meaning as it pertains to descriptions of events. The corpus, POLITICAL-ADS is drawn from 141 television ads from the 2008 U.S. presidential race and contains 3945 NPs and 1549 VPs annotated for scalar sentiment from three different perspectives: the narrator, the annotator, and general society. We show that annotators can distinguish these pers...