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...

1. ABSTRACT We developed an approach to convert“adult stories” to“children stories.” Specifically, we obtained 30 stories, 15 of which were of each story type. Our Lexical Analyzer (LA) made use of OpenNLP’s part-of-speech tagging utility. With this, we developed a means to do clausal separation, allowing our story to be more direct and explicit by generating more simple sentences. We looked at...

Abstract This paper presents a linguistically uninformed computational model for animacy classification. The model makes use of word n-grams in combination with lower dimensional word embedding representations that are learned from a web-scale corpus. We compare the model to a number of linguistically informed models that use features such as dependency tags and show competitive results. We app...

the present article studies the short stories by jabra ibrahim jabra the iraqi writer who was born in palestine. he is among the neo-writers of arabic literature concerning poetry, translation, criticism and novel. his collection “ergh and other stories” is one of his first experiences in story writing. his stories seem to be an introduction or a conclusion to his novel which was inspired by ro...

image of woman in literature is an important issue of critical feminism. it can be argued that literature is the society's mirror, but unfortunately this mirror has not yet reflected a beautiful image of woman. with some exceptions women are usually given a nasty and negative image. this paper is a study on the images of women in some anecdotes and stories that had been written between 6th...

User stories are a widespread instrument for representing requirements. They describe small user-oriented parts of the system and guide the daily work of developers. Often however, user stories are too coarse, so that misunderstandings or dependencies remain unforeseeable. Granularity of user stories needs to be investigated more, but at the same time is a hard-to-grasp concept. This paper inve...

This report describes the transformation of feature films into hypervideo by representing their story structures using plot unties. Plot units represent cause-effect relationships between characters’ affect states and the events in a story. We use plot units to structure hypervideo links between intervals of video data. We have manually analysed two full-length feature films in terms of plot un...

Theory of mind (ToM), the ability to reason about other people's thoughts and beliefs, has been traditionally studied in behavioral and neuroimaging experiments by comparing performance in "false belief" and "false photograph" (control) stories. However, some evidence suggests that these stories are not matched in difficulty, complicating the interpretation of results. Here, we more fully evalu...

One way people learn new words is through reading books and stories. Little kids love hearing their favorite stories over and over and are also very good at learning new words. We wondered if reading the same stories could be helping preschool kids learn new words. Our research tested if it was better to read the same stories over and over or to read a few different stories. Here, we tell you a...