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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2024.10

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, and Eric Maisel

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 318, 31st International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2024)

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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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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)

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@InProceedings{dupindesaintcyr_et_al:LIPIcs.TIME.2024.10,
  author =	{Dupin de Saint-Cyr, Florence and Bosser, Anne-Gwenn and Callac, Benjamin and Maisel, Eric},
  title =	{{What Killed the Cat? Towards a Logical Formalization of Curiosity (And Suspense, and Surprise) in Narratives}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2024)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-349-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{318},
  editor =	{Sala, Pietro and Sioutis, Michael and Wang, Fusheng},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2024.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-212170},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2024.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Knowledge Representation, Narration, Cognition}
}

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

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