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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.5

Exploring “Letters from the Future” by Visualizing Narrative Structure

Authors: Sytske Wiegersma, Anneke M. Sools, and Bernard P. Veldkamp

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

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The growing supply of online mental health tools, platforms and treatments results in an enormous quantity of digital narrative data to be structured, analysed and interpreted. Natural Language Processing is very suitable to automatically extract textual and structural features from narratives. Visualizing these features can help to explore patterns and shifts in text content and structure. In this study, streamgraphs are developed for different types of "Letters from the Future", an online mental health promotion instrument. The visualizations show differences between as well as within the different letter types, providing directions for future research in both the visualization of narrative structure and in the field of narrative psychology. The method presented here is not limited to "Letters from the Future", the current object of study, but can in fact be used to explore any digital or digitalized textual source, like books, speech transcripts or email conversations.

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Sytske Wiegersma, Anneke M. Sools, and Bernard P. Veldkamp. Exploring “Letters from the Future” by Visualizing Narrative Structure. In 7th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2016). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 53, pp. 5:1-5:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{wiegersma_et_al:OASIcs.CMN.2016.5,
  author =	{Wiegersma, Sytske and Sools, Anneke M. and Veldkamp, Bernard P.},
  title =	{{Exploring “Letters from the Future” by Visualizing Narrative Structure}},
  booktitle =	{7th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2016)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:18},
  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.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67064},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Text visualization, NLP, Narrative structure}
}

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