Starting work with Narrative
Just a quick post to establish the area I am working on.
To start with, a definition:
nar·ra·tive
noun
1. a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
I am interested in Narrative (stories) as a representation of Information, and how a Narrative can be generated from other information sources. The applications of such research are as varied as the use of stories today ranging from automatic news readers, analysis of colabritive working enviroments, and adaptive storytelling for games to name but a few.
It is fundamental to my research to explore the existing use of narrative, why we use narrative to communicate information, and how it is built, as well what elements of narrative cause it to be used as a method of communicating information and how can these elements be generated. Much work has been done in the study of narrative and how it is built in narratology and a small ammount of research has been done into systems that generate narrative but the field still has many important questions to be answered.
I have begun my research for the past 2 months with a two pronged approach. On one side I have been researching narratology by reading a collection of writings on narratology called "The Narrative Reader" (M McQuillan, 2000) and a book called "The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative" (N Lowe, 2000). While simultaneously studying several systems that investigate the generation of narrative such as Artequakt, the Hyperdoc, Topia, and some others. I have also began looking into semantic wiki's.
I intend to use this blog as a means of tracking my research progress and also advertising any ideas or discoverys I have. Hopefully this research can make a significant contribution to the field of Information Representation and Narrative Studies.
To start with, a definition:
nar·ra·tive
noun
1. a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
I am interested in Narrative (stories) as a representation of Information, and how a Narrative can be generated from other information sources. The applications of such research are as varied as the use of stories today ranging from automatic news readers, analysis of colabritive working enviroments, and adaptive storytelling for games to name but a few.
It is fundamental to my research to explore the existing use of narrative, why we use narrative to communicate information, and how it is built, as well what elements of narrative cause it to be used as a method of communicating information and how can these elements be generated. Much work has been done in the study of narrative and how it is built in narratology and a small ammount of research has been done into systems that generate narrative but the field still has many important questions to be answered.
I have begun my research for the past 2 months with a two pronged approach. On one side I have been researching narratology by reading a collection of writings on narratology called "The Narrative Reader" (M McQuillan, 2000) and a book called "The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative" (N Lowe, 2000). While simultaneously studying several systems that investigate the generation of narrative such as Artequakt, the Hyperdoc, Topia, and some others. I have also began looking into semantic wiki's.
I intend to use this blog as a means of tracking my research progress and also advertising any ideas or discoverys I have. Hopefully this research can make a significant contribution to the field of Information Representation and Narrative Studies.
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