The media today bombards us with massive amounts of news about events ranging from the mundane to the memorable. This growing cacophony places an ever greater premium on being able to identify significant stories and to capture their salient features. In this paper, we consider the problem of mining on-line news over a certain period to identify what the major stories were in that time. Major s...

This thesis describes a biologically-inspired body-mind architecture for emotions, behaviour and belief regulation. The interest lies in modelling the conditions to the emergence of emotions instead of programming emotions. Emotions are not defined explicitly, but evolve from modulation of perception, motivation, actionselection, planning and memory access. The resulting agent acts as a context...

It seems kind of strange that eating parasitic worms causes a cure rather than a disease. Yet, this fact is no stranger than many other man-bites-dog stories about "real life" in contemporary times. Such stories arise at moments of changing equilibria in the processes of the social construction of reality. They are especially evident during periods of intense dialectic in which long held theses...

Stories are really an interesting one to read, especially kids love to listen to stories. It grabs the reader’s attention and gives them great pleasure or excitement or thrill or suspense while reading it. Readers go along with stories and may have the expectation and predict the flow of story based on the previous situations narrated by the authors. Predicting the flow of story requires reason...

Stories are really an interesting one to read, especially kids love to listen to stories. It grabs the reader’s attention and gives them great pleasure or excitement or thrill or suspense while reading it. Readers go along with stories and may have the expectation and predict the flow of story based on the previous situations narrated by the authors. Predicting the flow of story requires reason...

Stories are really an interesting one to read, especially kids love to listen to stories. It grabs the reader‘s attention and gives them great pleasure or excitement or thrill or suspense while reading it. Readers go along with stories and may have the expectation and predict the flow of story based on the previous situations narrated by the authors. Predicting the flow of story requires reason...