Paper Info
Title
Tale Variants and Analysis in Episodic Formulae: Early Ottoman, Elizabethan, and "Solomonic" Versions.
Abstract
Even though artificial intelligence has attained nice results while handling narratives as early as the 1970s, and notwithstanding the resurgence of the field in the late 1990s after the \"AI Winter\" of the 1990s, it cannot be said that AI's handling of narratives is up to the standards of the humanities. In the project described here, we departed from AI's tradition of either analysing an input natural-language narrative and answering questions about it, or generating a story. Rather, we try to enucleate narrative elements that matter by relying, in the first place, on the human mind. We analyse by hand, and set into episodic formulae, a tale from the fabulous realm. The tale of the king who transfers his soul into a parrot, and is duped by a trusted vizier who takes over the king's body and identity, is known from an early Ottoman collection. It is derived from a Persian source, and also an English partial version exists, from the Elizabethan period. Our own present analysis contrasts formal representations for part of the précis of the Turkish tale, and a corresponding part of a present-day Hebrew version about King Solomon. Full treatment will hopefully appear in book form. Other than with episodic formulae (our own formalism), analysing a narrative by hand is not unheard of, in current research in computer science. With the emergence of virtual environments harbouring a society of agents, sometimes the need has been felt for a high-level behaviour specification language, by whose means a designer could feed a given narrative into an architecture of instructable agents.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-642-45324-3_9
Language, Culture, Computation (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
planning,metamorphosis,narrative analysis,narratives,knowledge representation
Turkish,Realm,Soul,Narrative inquiry,Hebrew,Psychology,Narrative,Formalism (philosophy),Literature,AI winter
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8002
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
23
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ephraim Nissan116421.59