We present a system that uses evolutionary optimization to suggest new story-world events that, if added to an existing interactive story, would most improve the average interactive experience, according to author-supplied criteria. In doing so, we aim to apply some of the ideas from drama-managed storytelling, such as authorial aesthetic control, in an unguided setting more akin to emergent st...

In Enlightenment Europe multilingualism was an omnipresent fact. Even the correspondences of eighteenth-century writers gave clear evidence – often strategically chosen forms multilingualism. Up until today, question arises as to why early modern used (various of) in their letters. This paper investigates, for first time, hypothesis that letter writing a strategy intellectual and authorial self...

This paper reports an experiment in authorship attribution that reveals considerable authorial structure in texts written by authors with very similar background and training, with genre and topic being strictly controlled for. We interpret our results as supporting the hypothesis that authors have ’textual fingerprints’, at least for texts produced by authors who are not consciously changing t...

The purpose of this article is to propose a tool for measuring distances between different styles of one or more authors. The main study is focused on measuring and visualizing distances in a space induced by ranked lexical features. We investigate the case of Vladimir Nabokov, a bilingual Russian English language author.

Role-playing games, and other types of contemporary video games, usually contain a main storyline consisting of several causally related quests. As players have different motivations, tastes and preferences, it can be beneficial to customize game plotlines. In this paper, we present an offline algorithm for adapting human-authored game plotlines for computer roleplaying games to suit the unique...

Forensic analysis of questioned electronic documents is very difficult, because the nature of the documents eliminates many kinds of informative differences. Recent work in authorship attribution demonstrates the practicality of analyzing documents based on authorial style, but the state of the art is confusing. Analyses are difficult to apply, little is known about type or rate of errors, and ...

Despite the existing extensive research on stance markers such as hedges, boosters, and self-mention in academic writing, few studies, however, examined co-occurrence of these to help authors project their identities writing. In this study, we examine how with boosters hedges are used by writers different groups manifest authorial presence what functions they realize Two self-compiled corpora w...