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What Killed the Cat? Towards a Logical Formalization of Curiosity (And Suspense, and Surprise) in Narratives

Authors Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr , Anne-Gwenn Bosser , Benjamin Callac, Eric Maisel

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Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr
  • Lab-STICC CNRS UMR 6285, ENIB, Brest, France
  • IRIT, Université de Toulouse, France
Anne-Gwenn Bosser
  • Lab-STICC CNRS UMR 6285, ENIB, Brest, France
Benjamin Callac
  • Lab-STICC CNRS UMR 6285, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
Eric Maisel
  • Lab-STICC CNRS UMR 6285, ENIB, Brest, France

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The authors want to thank the anonymous reviewers for their relevant suggestions that helped them to improve the paper.

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Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, Benjamin Callac, and Eric Maisel. What Killed the Cat? Towards a Logical Formalization of Curiosity (And Suspense, and Surprise) in Narratives. In 31st International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 318, pp. 10:1-10:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2024.10

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We provide a unified framework in which the three emotions at the heart of narrative tension (curiosity, suspense and surprise) are formalized. This framework is built on non-monotonic reasoning which allows us to compactly represent the default behavior of the world and to simulate the affective evolution of an agent receiving a story. After formalizing the notions of awareness, curiosity, surprise and suspense, we explore the properties induced by our definitions and study the computational complexity of detecting them. We finally propose means to evaluate these emotions’ intensity for a given agent listening to a story.

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  • Knowledge Representation
  • Narration
  • Cognition

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