Computational Properties of Fiction Writing and Collaborative Work
Human-Computer Interaction
2013-08-20 v1
Abstract
From the earliest days of computing, there have been tools to help shape narrative. Spell-checking, word counts, and readability analysis, give today's novelists tools that Dickens, Austen, and Shakespeare could only have dreamt of. However, such tools have focused on the word, or phrase levels. In the last decade, research focus has shifted to support for collaborative editing of documents. This work considers more sophisticated attempts to visualise the semantics, pace and rhythm within a narrative through data mining. We describe real life applications in two related domains.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1308.3745,
title = {Computational Properties of Fiction Writing and Collaborative Work},
author = {Joseph Reddington and Fionn Murtagh and Douglas Cowie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3745},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
13 pages, 6 figures