Search Results

Documents authored by León, Carlos

Document
DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.11
Annotating Musical Theatre Plots on Narrative Structure and Emotional Content

Authors: Pablo Gervás, Raquel Hervás, Carlos León, and Catherine V. Gale

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 53, 7th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2016)

Abstract
Although theoretical models of the structure of narrative arising from systematic analysis of corpora are available for domains such as Russian folk tales, there are no such sources for the plot lines of musical theatre. The present paper reports an effort of knowledge elicitation for features that characterise the narrative structure of plot in the particular domain of musical theatre. The following aspects are covered: identification of a valid vocabulary of abstract units to use in annotating musical theatre plots, development of a procedure for annotation - including a spread-sheet format for annotators to use, and a corresponding set of instructions to guide them through the process - selection of a corpus of musical theatre pieces that would constitute the corpus to be annotated, the annotation process itself and the results of post-processing the annotated corpus in search for insights on the narrative structure of musical theatre plots.
Cite as

Pablo Gervás, Raquel Hervás, Carlos León, and Catherine V. Gale. Annotating Musical Theatre Plots on Narrative Structure and Emotional Content. In 7th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2016). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 53, pp. 11:1-11:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

Copy BibTex To Clipboard

@InProceedings{gervas_et_al:OASIcs.CMN.2016.11,
  author =	{Gerv\'{a}s, Pablo and Herv\'{a}s, Raquel and Le\'{o}n, Carlos and Gale, Catherine V.},
  title =	{{Annotating Musical Theatre Plots on Narrative Structure and Emotional Content}},
  booktitle =	{7th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2016)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:16},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-020-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{53},
  editor =	{Miller, Ben and Lieto, Antonio and Ronfard, R\'{e}mi and Ware, Stephen G. and Finlayson, Mark A.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67122},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Narrative annotation, conceptual representation of narrative, character functions, narrative schemas, musical theatre}
}
Document
DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2015.54
Schemas for Narrative Generation Mined from Existing Descriptions of Plot

Authors: Pablo Gervás, Carlos León, and Gonzalo Méndez

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 45, 6th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2015)

Abstract
Computational generation of literary artifacts very often resorts to template-like schemas that can be instantiated into complex structures. With this view in mind, the present paper reviews a number of existing attempts to provide an elementary set of patterns for basic plots. An attempt is made to formulate these descriptions of possible plots in terms of character functions, an abstraction of plot-bearing elements of a story originally formulated by Vladimir Propp. These character functions act as the building blocks of the Propper system, an existing framework for computational story generation. The paper explores the set of extensions required to the original set of character functions to allow for a basic representation of the analysed schemata, and a solution for automatic generation of stories based on this formulation of the narrative schemas. This solution uncovers important insights on the relative expressive power of the representation of narrative in terms of character functions, and their impact on the generative potential of the framework is discussed.
Cite as

Pablo Gervás, Carlos León, and Gonzalo Méndez. Schemas for Narrative Generation Mined from Existing Descriptions of Plot. In 6th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2015). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 45, pp. 54-71, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

Copy BibTex To Clipboard

@InProceedings{gervas_et_al:OASIcs.CMN.2015.54,
  author =	{Gerv\'{a}s, Pablo and Le\'{o}n, Carlos and M\'{e}ndez, Gonzalo},
  title =	{{Schemas for Narrative Generation Mined from Existing Descriptions of Plot}},
  booktitle =	{6th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2015)},
  pages =	{54--71},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-93-4},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{45},
  editor =	{Finlayson, Mark A. and Miller, Ben and Lieto, Antonio and Ronfard, Remi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2015.54},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-52812},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2015.54},
  annote =	{Keywords: Narrative generation, conceptual representation of narrative, character functions, plot, narrative schemas}
}
Document
DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2014.61
The Need for Multi-Aspectual Representation of Narratives in Modelling their Creative Process

Authors: Pablo Gervás and Carlos León

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 41, 2014 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative

Abstract
Existing approaches to narrative construction tend to apply basic engineering principles of system design which rely on identifying the most relevant feature of the domain for the problem at hand, and postulating an initial representation of the problem space organised around such a principal feature. Some features that have been favoured in the past include: causality, linear discourse, underlying structure, and character behavior. The present paper defends the need for simultaneous consideration of as many as possible of these aspects when attempting to model the process of creating narratives, together with some mechanism for distributing the weight of the decision processes across them. Humans faced with narrative construction may shift from views based on characters to views based on structure, then consider causality, and later also take into account the shape of discourse. This behavior can be related to the process of representational re-description of constraints as described in existing literature on cognitive models of the writing task. The paper discusses how existing computational models of narrative construction address this phenomenon, and argues for a computational model of narrative explicitly based on multiple aspects.
Cite as

Pablo Gervás and Carlos León. The Need for Multi-Aspectual Representation of Narratives in Modelling their Creative Process. In 2014 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 41, pp. 61-76, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014)

Copy BibTex To Clipboard

@InProceedings{gervas_et_al:OASIcs.CMN.2014.61,
  author =	{Gerv\'{a}s, Pablo and Le\'{o}n, Carlos},
  title =	{{The Need for Multi-Aspectual Representation of Narratives in Modelling their Creative Process}},
  booktitle =	{2014 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative},
  pages =	{61--76},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-71-2},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2014},
  volume =	{41},
  editor =	{Finlayson, Mark A. and Meister, Jan Christoph and Bruneau, Emile G.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2014.61},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-46459},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2014.61},
  annote =	{Keywords: narrative construction, creative process, conceptual representation of narrative}
}
Questions / Remarks / Feedback
X

Feedback for Dagstuhl Publishing


Thanks for your feedback!

Feedback submitted

Could not send message

Please try again later or send an E-mail
© 2023-2024 Schloss Dagstuhl – LZI GmbH Imprint Privacy Contact