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Impulse: a Formal Characterization of Story

Authors Markus Eger, Camille Barot, R. Michael Young

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  • Narrative
  • logic
  • representation
  • mental models
  • time

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Abstract

We present a novel representation of narratives at the story level called Impulse. It combines a temporal representation of a story’s actions and events with a representation of the mental models of the story’s characters into a cohesive, logic-based language. We show the expressiveness of this approach by encoding a story fragment, and compare it to other formal story representations in terms of representational dimensions. We also acknowledge the computational complexity of our approach and argue that a restricted subset still provides a high degree of expressive power

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Markus Eger, Camille Barot, and R. Michael Young. Impulse: a Formal Characterization of Story. In 6th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2015). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 45, pp. 45-53, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2015.45

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Markus Eger
Camille Barot
R. Michael Young

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