Preface: Computational Models of Narrative

Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. We use them - What comprises the set of possible narrative arcs? Is there to educate, communicate, convince, explain, and entertain. How many possible story lines are there? Is As far as we know, every society in the world has narratives, there a recipe (à la Joseph Campbell or Vladimir Propp) which suggests they are rooted in our psychology and serve for generating narratives? an important cognitive function: that narratives do something - What are the appropriate representations of narrative?