Towards a Model-Theoretic View of Narratives
Louis Castricato, Stella Biderman, David Thue, Rogelio Cardona-Rivera
Abstract
In this paper, we propose the beginnings of a formal framework for modeling narrative qua narrative. Our framework affords the ability to discuss key qualities of stories and their communication, including the flow of information from a Narrator to a Reader, the evolution of a Reader’s story model over time, and Reader uncertainty. We demonstrate its applicability to computational narratology by giving explicit algorithms for measuring the accuracy with which information was conveyed to the Reader, along with two novel measurements of story coherence.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.nuse-1.10
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Narrative Understanding
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Virtual
- Venues:
- NUSE | WNU
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 95–104
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.nuse-1.10
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.nuse-1.10
- Cite (ACL):
- Louis Castricato, Stella Biderman, David Thue, and Rogelio Cardona-Rivera. 2021. Towards a Model-Theoretic View of Narratives. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Narrative Understanding, pages 95–104, Virtual. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Towards a Model-Theoretic View of Narratives (Castricato et al., NUSE-WNU 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nodalida-main-page/2021.nuse-1.10.pdf