Exploring the Betrothed Lovers

Bolioli, Andrea; Casu, Matteo; Lana, Maurizio; Roda, Renato

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“…In addition to the description of individual plots, they are also used to compare them, for example among episodes of a given series [97], or works belonging to the same genre [209], period [115] or author [200]. In other social science domains, character networks are also used for educational purposes [26], and to study certain psychological mechanisms [32].…”

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“…Moreover, it can be considered as too long a narrative unit for this usage, as many events can take place in the same chapter. Bolioli et al [26] use what they call a narrative sequence: a small portion of text characterized by its unity of location and involved characters (basically, a scene). Prado et al [197] proceed similarly when studying La chanson de Roland, as this song of heroic deeds is originally divided into stanzas of very irregular size.…”

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“…Table 1), it allows measuring how much a character acts as a broker or narrative bridge, i.e. connects separate parts of the plot [26,206]. Characters with low betweenness are considered as narratively dependent on more central ones [206].…”

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“…Characters with low betweenness are considered as narratively dependent on more central ones [206]. However, Bolioli et al remark that the most central characters in terms of betweenness are not necessarily those appearing as the most important to the reader, as this centrality highlights their bridging role [26]. Muhuri et al also remark that a high betweenness is associated to a role of messenger, generally towards supporting characters [172].…”

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“…In character networks, communities are related to parts of the narrative, as illustrated by Figure 15. They can be used to identify either individual subplots, or groups of subplots involving roughly the same characters [26,136,155,181,191]. For instance, in the epic narrative Beowulf, Mac Carron & Kenna [154] identify two subplots taking place in the past and appearing as two components, completely disconnected from the main plot.…”

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A character network is a graph extracted from a narrative, in which vertices represent characters and edges correspond to interactions between them. A number of narrative-related problems can be addressed automatically through the analysis of character networks, such as summarization, classification, or role detection. Character networks are particularly relevant when considering works of fictions (e.g. novels, plays, movies, TV series), as their exploitation allows developing information retrieval and recommendation systems. However, works of fiction possess specific properties making these tasks harder.This survey aims at presenting and organizing the scientific literature related to the extraction of character networks from works of fiction, as well as their analysis. We first describe the extraction process in a generic way, and explain how its constituting steps are implemented in practice, depending on the medium of the narrative, the goal of the network analysis, and other factors. We then review the descriptive tools used to characterize character networks, with a focus on the way they are interpreted in this context. We illustrate the relevance of character networks by also providing a review of applications derived from their analysis. Finally, we identify the limitations of the existing approaches, and the most promising perspectives.

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Narrative Cognition in Mixed Reality Systems: Towards an Empirical Framework

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Graphic Visualization in Literary Text Interpretation

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This article discusses a possible approach combining existing technologies for Natural Language Processing (NLP), Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) and Data Visualization in a coherent Decision Support System (DSS) aimed to formulate and verify specific interpretative hypotheses about a certain text. The approach chosen for developing this system implies (i.) the customization and integration of existing tools for automatic text annotation (first of all, linguistic, lexicographic and semantic) and (ii.) the construction of a user-friendly and highly expressive GUI. The interface is conceived to allow users to (i.) upload the text/s they are studying, (ii) run the desired annotation tools, and (iii.) visually interact with the resulting multi-layered network to explore the network, proof-read the results of the automatic annotations and add missing elements and/or relations between elements.

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Exploring the Betrothed Lovers

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Extraction and Analysis of Fictional Character Networks

Extraction and Analysis of Fictional Character Networks

Narrative Cognition in Mixed Reality Systems: Towards an Empirical Framework

Graphic Visualization in Literary Text Interpretation

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