Towards a Formal Model of Narratives
Computation and Language
2021-03-25 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Logic in Computer Science
Abstract
In this paper, we propose the beginnings of a formal framework for modeling narrative \textit{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 and two novel measurements of story coherence.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2103.12872,
title = {Towards a Formal Model of Narratives},
author = {Louis Castricato and Stella Biderman and Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera and David Thue},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.12872},
year = {2021}
}
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8 pages, 2 figures