apart from the linguistic ability in translation which has constantly been the focus of scholars in the past decades, many recent arguments and research on translation quality point to the indispensable effect of mental and cognitive aspects of translator on his translation performance. in this paper we sought to implement this psychological approach and to investigate the probable relationship...

This chapter discusses narrative intelligence in the context of the origins of primate (social) intelligence. The relationship between social intelligence and narrative intelligence is outlined, with a particular emphasis on 1) the phylogenetic origins of primate (narrative) intelligence, and 2) the ontogenetic origin of autobiographical stories. The chapter is based on the assumption that in o...

The  major  aim  of  this  paper  was  to  investigate  the  validity  of  language  and intelligence  factors  for  classifying  Iranian  English  learners`  writing  performance. Iranian  participants  of  the  study  took  three  tests  for  grammar,  breadth,  and  depth  of vocabulary, and two tests for verbal and narrative intelligence. They also produced a corpus  of  argumentative  writ...

People are narrative animals. As children, our caretakers immerse us in stories: fairy tales, made-up stories, favorite stories, "Read me a story!" Even when barely verbal, we begin to tell our own proto-stories. "Phoebe! Pizza! Phoebe! Pizza!" was the excited story of a 2-year-old friend Addie when one of us happened to arrive simultaneously with the pizza delivery man. This story means, appro...

This article discusses narrative intelligence in the context of the evolution of primate (social) intelligence, and with respect to the particular cognitive limits that constrain the development of human social networks and societies. The Narrative Intelligence Hypothesis suggests that the evolutionary origin of communicating in a narrative format co-evolved with increasingly complex social dyn...

It goes without saying that there are many influential factors affecting the success of any learning experience, and teachers are definitely among the significant factors influencing the process of teaching and learning. In this respect, the present study sought to investigate the prediction of Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' learning approaches through their teachers’ nar...

the aim of this study was to investigate the role of linguistic and intelligence factors in the iranian ielts candidates’ speaking performance. linguistic factors include depth and breadth of vocabulary knowledge as well as grammar knowledge. narrative and verbal intelligences represent the non-linguistic factors. the participants included 329 learners who took 5 validated tests and also partic...

Narrative intelligence is an important part of human cognition, especially in sensemaking and communicating with people. Humans draw on a lifetime of relevant experiences to explain stories, to tell stories, and to help choose the most appropriate actions in real-life settings. Manual authoring the required knowledge presents a significant bottleneck in the creation of systems demonstrating nar...

Interactive narrative is a form of digital interactive experience in which users influence a dramatic storyline through their actions. Artificial intelligence approaches to interactive narrative use a domain model to determine how the narrative should unfold based on user actions. However, domain models for interactive narrative require artificial intelligence and knowledge representation exper...

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. CHI’16 Workshop on Human-Centered Machine Learning, May 8, 2016, San Jose, California, USA. Abstract Narrative intel...