XML stream processing has recently become popular for many applications such as selective dissemination of information. Several approaches have been proposed and most of them are based on the idea of finite automata. Different from these approaches, this paper presents a novel and efficient method for evaluating XPath with predicates on XML streaming data. For linear XPath expressions, our appr...

RDF Site Summaries constitute an application of RDF on the Web that has considerably grown in popularity. However, the way RSS systems operate today limits their scalability. Current RSS feed arregators follow a pull-based architecture model, which is not going to scale with the increasing number of RSS feeds becoming available on the Web. In this paper we introduce G-ToPSS, a scalable publish/...

Narrative generation is the process of automatically generating narrative stories (fictional or not) through a narrative model. With the advances in machine learning and natural language processing techniques, narrative generators have been able to create more creative and interesting text in terms of narrative contents and story telling techniques. These systems have applications in a range of...

BACKGROUND Traditionally most health education materials are written in an expository non-narrative format. Scholars have argued that the effectiveness of materials may increase when these texts are replaced by narrative texts, and that the non-narrative texts should be replaced by narrative texts. However, no previous studies have tested these claims in the context of school health education f...

The sociocultural ways of conceptualizing human learning in general education have given rise to various sensitive and time-consuming tools of knowledge production for both the researcher and the researched. The gravity of the situation is more noticeable in narrative inquiry methodology, which has gathered momentum in both general education and second language teacher education (SLTE) because ...

The recent increase in interest in Interactive Storytelling systems, spurred on by the emergence of affordable virtual reality technology, has brought with it a need to address the way in which narrative content is visualized through the complex staging of multiple narrative agents’ behaviors within virtual story worlds. In this work we address the challenge of automating several aspects of sta...