Paper Info
Title
Narratives, Formalism, Computational Tools, and Nonlinearity.
Abstract
We recapitulate four decades of computational processing of narratives. Vladimir Propp's work in the 1920s paved the way to both the structuralists' approach to the folktale and to narratives in general, and the story grammars approach to automate story-processing. In the latter domain, grammar-driven processing was overtaken by goal-driven processing, but there has been a comeback of story grammars, in combination with other devices. Propp's concern was with Russian folktales, and some story-generation programs are relevant indeed for folktale studies: such is the case of the programs TALE-SPIN and Joseph, which reportedly generated fables; MINSTREL generated Arthurian tales. Sometimes, bugs reveal more than proper functioning does, about the actual underlying model. Automated story processing, within artificial intelligence, showed important results since the late 1970s. After slowing down during the 1990s, since the turn of the century the field resurged, especially in the perspective of virtual environments and interactive narratives, also benefiting from the popularity of computer models of the emotions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-642-45324-3_11
Language, Culture, Computation (2)
Field
DocType
Volume
Rule-based machine translation,Cognitive science,Computer science,Computational linguistics,Popularity,Structuralism,Narrative,Artificial intelligence,Formalism (philosophy),Belief revision
Conference
8002
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
2
0.35
References 
Authors
140
1
Search Limit
100140
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ephraim Nissan116421.59