The present article aims to analyze the process of recovering marine imagery in some contemporary Romanian fictional works. study will proceed with our from two distinct perspectives: point view a narrator who gained experience on board ships and an imaginary narrator-traveler. For case studies, few postmodern fictions have been considered. limits between reality fiction are identify literary e...

Why and how do digital games make us play with them? What are their argumentative strategies of make-believe like, shaped as they are by possibilities and necessities? How do games induce constant cooperation and persuade us to play, and keep playing1? Finally, what signifies the relationship between game design(er), gameplay, and player? Let us sidestep typical answers to these questions and i...

Natural resource management is increasingly focusing on the benefits of regional planning and management. Viewed as the middle ground between ‘top-down’ bureaucracy and ‘bottom-up’ community activism, regional approaches are favoured by government at all levels. Such approaches have evolved in parallel across sectors, as governments pursue better policy delivery and programme implementation. Th...

Beyond the rhetoric, how has widespread adoption of B2B and B2C ecommerce actually impacted large bricks and mortar businesses? In this paper we review some of the economic approaches to the analysis of efficiency as well as preliminary work establishing hypotheses to be tested on a sample set, the answers we expect to see, and the implications for the Semantic Web, should all the rhetoric turn...

Many essential components of language charted by rhetoric, the ancient study of persuasion, remain understudied and underrepresented in current Natural Language systems. Our goal is to combine linguistic and rhetorical theories with discourse analysis and machine learning to develop formal models of computational rhetoric that may be usefully applied in real-world Computational Linguistics syst...

Approaching First-Year Composition (FYC) as a “big data” phenomenon, we have prototyped software to study revision in a large corpus of student papers and thus to address a question central to Composition and Rhetoric scholarship: “What role does revision play in students’ writing processes?” After running our program on a corpus of student writing, we see that our computational analysis challe...

Narrator, Audience and Performance in Rural Ukrainian Storytelling Jennifer Dickinson ([email protected]) University of Vermont, Dept. of Anthropology Introduction: The Place of Stories in Apsha Social Life In my experience, no one is more pitied in Ukrainian rural life than the person who is alone, as I discovered when I would try to sit in the house alone and read or work at my compu...

One goal of interactive narrative and drama is to create an experience while utilizing computer where the user is one main character in the story. This goal raises a set of practical and theoretical challenges to Artificial Intelligence. In particular, an Intelligent Narrator has to dynamically maintain a satisfactory storyline and adapt to the user intervention. After reviewing the existing ap...