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 Swanson, Reid


Minimal Narrative Annotation Schemes and Their Applications

AAAI Conferences

The increased use of large corpora in narrative research has created new opportunities for empirical research and intelligent narrative technologies. To best exploit the value of these corpora, several research groups are eschewing complex discourse analysis techniques in favor of high-level minimalist narrative annotation schemes that can be quickly applied, achieve high inter-rater agreement, and are amenable to automation using machine-learning techniques. In this paper we compare different annotation schemes that have been employed by two groups of researchers to annotate large corpora of narrative text. Using a dual-annotation methodology, we investigate the correlation between narrative clauses distinguished by their structural role (orientation, action, evaluation), their subjectivity, and their narrative level within the discourse. We find that each simple narrative annotation scheme captures a structurally distinct characteristic of real-world narratives, and each combination of labels is evident in a corpus of 19 weblog narratives (951 narrative clauses). We discuss several potential applications of minimalist narrative annotation schemes, noting the combination of label across these two annotation schemes that best support each task.


Reports on the 2012 AIIDE Workshops

AI Magazine

The 2012 AIIDE Conference included four workshops: Artificial Intelligence in Adversarial Real-Time Games, Human Computation in Deigital Entertainment and AI for Serious Games, Intelligent Narrative Technologies, and Musican Metacreation. The workshops took place October 8-9, 2012 at Stanford University. This report contains summaries of the activities of those four workshops.