November 11-13, 2010
The Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, VA
part of the AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium Series
Narratives are ubiquitous. We use them to educate, communicate, convince, explain, and entertain. As far as we know every society has narratives, which suggests they are deeply rooted and serve an important cognitive function: that narratives do something for us. It is clear that, to fully explain human intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand and explain narrative.
Despite a revival of interest in the computational understanding of narrative, there is still great uncertainty regarding fundamental questions. What does narrative do for us? What exactly is narrative? What representations are required to model narrative? This symposium will address fundamental topics and questions regarding the computational modeling and scientific understanding of narrative. Immediate technological applications, while not discouraged, are not required. Questions include:
The symposium will bring together researchers with a wide variety of perspectives to share what is known about the fundamentals of the computational modeling of narrative and to explore the forefront of that knowledge. We seek participation from as wide a variety of approaches as possible, including not only AI researchers and technologists, but also psychologists, cognitive scientists, linguists, philosophers, narrative theorists, anthropologists, educators, storytellers, and neuroscientists.
The submission deadline has passed, and submissions for the symposium are no longer being accepted. Parties with an interest in the topic but without an accepted paper may still attend, and are encouraged to contact the organizers at narrative-fs10@csail.mit.edu for potential inclusion on a discussion panel. Registration and other logistical information may be found on the AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium Series website.
| Title | Authors | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Story Schemes for Argumentation about the Facts of a Crime | Floris J. Bex Bart Verheij |
University of Dundee University of Groningen |
| Towards a Black Box Approximation to Human Processing of Narratives Based on Heuristics over Surface Form |
Carlos León Pablo Gervás |
Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| Computability of Narrative | Loizos Michael | Open University of Cyprus |
| A Neural Computational Theory of Narrative | George Lakoff Srini Narayanan |
University of California, Berkeley |
| Discourse Structure Effects on the Global Coherence of Texts | Eyal Sagi | Northwestern University |
| Requirements for Computational Models of Interactive Narrative | Nicolas Szilas | University of Geneva |
| Representing and Managing Narratives in a Computer-Suitable Form | Gian Piero Zarri | University Paris-Est, Créteil |
| Title | Authors | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| StatsMonkey: A Data-Driven Sports Narrative Writer | Nicholas D. Allen John R. Templon Patrick Summerhays McNally Larry Birnbaum Kristian Hammond |
Northwestern University | Persuasive Stories Multi-Agent Argumentation | Floris J. Bex Trevor Bench-Capon |
University of Dundee University of Liverpool |
| The Language of Stories: A Conceptual Integration Analysis | Barbara Dancygier | University of British Columbia |
| Affecting Choices in Interactive Storytelling | Rui Figueiredo Ana Paiva |
INESC-ID Tagusparque |
| A Cultural Computing Approach to Interactive Narrative: The Case of the Living Liberia Fabric |
D. Fox Harrell Chris Gonzalez Hank Blumenthal Ayoka Chenzira Natasha Powell Nathan Piazza Michael Best |
MIT Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Considerations in Representing Myths, Legends, and Folktales | R. Raymond Lang | Xavier University of Louisiana |
| Social Issues in the Understanding of Narrative | Charlotte Linde | NASA Ames Research Center |
| Comparing Formal Frameworks of Narrative Structure | Benedikt Löwe | University of Amsterdam |
| A Preliminary Definition and Catalog of Thematic Labels | Earl J. Wagner | MIT |
| Rethinking Traditional Planning Assumptions to Facilitate Narrative Generation | Stephen G. Ware R. Michael Young |
North Carolina State University |
Last modified October 26, 2010