Classification and abstraction of narrative content is a problem that spans several domains and disciplines ranging from Film Studies and Narratology to Adaptive Hypermedia and Computational Preference Modeling. Applications for automatic recognition and classification of narrative content range from commercial recommendation systems to interactive digital storytelling (IDS) systems. The notion...

This study investigated whether film viewers recognize four basic genres (comic, drama, action and nonfiction) on the basis of genre-typical event cues or of genretypical filmic realization cues of events. Event cues are similar to the narrative content of a film sequence, while filmic realization cues are similar to stylistic surface cues of a film sequence. It was predicted that genre recogni...

The paper provides an in depth examination of the narrative structure of Massively Multiplayer Online Computer Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs). The analysis is focused on the narrative complexities created by the relationships between computer technology, the medieval fantasy that is central to the genre, and the emergent nature of the online player society. The paper is divided into four major se...

Genre recognition is a critical facet of text comprehension. In this study, we assess the minimum number of words in a sentence necessary for genre recognition to occur. Using corpora of Narrative, History, and Science sentences, we found that three experts in discourse psychology (demonstrating high agreement) accurately recognized the genre of over 80% of the sentences. This recognition gener...

Based on a contrastive approach that compares the argumentative genre of editorial with the narrative genre of personal narrative across two production modes, single-authored data and data elicited in an editing-based task, this paper examines the impact of genre on the realizations of discourse relations, paying particular attention to the argumentative genre and its preferential realizations ...

Although narrative journalism has a long history in the Netherlands, it is in recent years being promoted as a 'new' genre. This study examines the motives underlying this promotional tactic. To that end, we analyze how narrative journalism is framed in (1) public expressions of the initiatives aimed at professionalization of the genre and (2) interviews with journalists and lecturers in journa...

Genre identification is a critical facet of text comprehension, but very little is known about the process and information constraints of classifying texts by genres. In this study, higherskill and lower-skill participants read 210 sentences from three genres. The words in the sentences were presented sequentially, one at a time. With each new word, participants decided whether the sentences ca...

This paper explores how electronic health record (EHR) systems have introduced a new genre for physicians to use (a genre we refer to as check-list) that is used in addition to their traditional narrative genre as part of a single patient health record. Our analysis suggests that it is because the overlap between these two genres is created and used interdependently that breakdowns occur in the...