Paper Info
Title
Storyscope: using theme and setting to guide story enrichment from external data sources
Abstract
Museum narratives, like other forms of narrative, are developed from an underlying conceptualization of events that can be referred to as the story. Storyscope is a web-based environment for constructing and exploring museum narratives and their underlying concepts. Storyscope aligns with a formal model of story and narrative specialized for a museum context called the curate ontology. This paper will explore the plot-reasoning component of Storyscope that provides intelligent support for the selection of events within the story and their interconnection as a coherent structure to be told within the narrative. Plot reasoning uses both internal knowledge and external information sources, such as Freebase and Factforge, to propose events that can be used to incrementally develop storylines and to emplot a museum narrative. The approach taken uses the notions of setting and theme to search and rank events in terms of their relevance to the developing storyline. This paces the expansion of the story in each step, ensures that the story develops in a direction that is of interest to the author and helps to maintain narrative cohesion, an important goal of story-building. Plot development is also supported by methods for clustering events into related plot elements and by using information from Freebase to propose different types of influence relations between story events.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2481492.2481501
HT
Keywords
Field
DocType
underlying concept,museum narrative,plot reasoning,museum context,narrative cohesion,story event,external data source,storyscope aligns,plot development,story enrichment,related plot element,external information source,clustering,rdf,plot,narrative,theme
Cohesion (chemistry),Ontology,World Wide Web,Computer science,Conceptualization,Narrative,Cluster analysis,Multimedia,RDF
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.64
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Annika Wolff111221.67
Paul Mulholland223534.72
Trevor Collins39512.46