Paper Info
Title
Using narrative functions as a heuristic for relevance in story understanding
Abstract
Story understanding requires a degree of knowledge and expressiveness beyond the current state of natural language understanding. We present an approach that addresses these needs, using a large-scale knowledge base, simplified English grammar and a combination of compositional frame semantics and abductive reasoning. This in turn raises a significant challenge disambiguating complex semantic structures, which requires a pragmatics of narrative for constraint and guidance. We present a theory of narrative functions that serve as a heuristic for relevance in narrative, and provide evidence that this heuristic is effective for disambiguation that leads to consistent understanding.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1822309.1822318
Proceedings of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies III Workshop
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
narrative function,narrative,complex semantic structure,abductive reasoning,english grammar,story,semantics,knowledge representation,large-scale knowledge base,compositional frame semantics,natural language understanding,consistent understanding,story understanding,current state,knowledge base
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Emmett Tomai19212.95
Kenneth D. Forbus23131862.14