Visualization of narrative structure

Abstract

Introduction. The advantage of narrative structure over discourse is that narrative structure is specific to narrative. Discourse relations are common across domains. Thus narrative structure is well-suited to such tasks as narrative analysis and generation. Information about narrative structure could also be useful in education/teaching (e.g. automatic essay grading [8]) or detecting which blog posts (or Facebook, Twitter, online forum message, etc.) or news articles will become popular, get the most of reach or will spread the fastest. For example, if there are two Facebook posts about the same topic and written by equally well-connected persons, and one goes viral while the other does not, can we identify if there is something about the way the popular post was written that makes it a more effective narrative? Also, narrative structure could be useful for evaluating public opinion about certain ideas, events or people – their functions and roles as society perceives them. [...]