@inproceedings{fa333c95403d4e59b716025c178625ae,
title = "Using narrative functions as a heuristic for relevance in story understanding",
abstract = "Story understanding requires a degree of knowledge and expressiveness beyond the current state of natural language understanding. We present an approach that addresses these needs, using a large-scale knowledge base, simplified English grammar and a combination of compositional frame semantics and abductive reasoning. This in turn raises a significant challenge disambiguating complex semantic structures, which requires a pragmatics of narrative for constraint and guidance. We present a theory of narrative functions that serve as a heuristic for relevance in narrative, and provide evidence that this heuristic is effective for disambiguation that leads to consistent understanding.",
keywords = "Abductive reasoning, Knowledge representation, Narrative, Natural language understanding, Semantics, Story",
author = "Emmett Tomai and Forbus, {Kenneth D}",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1145/1822309.1822318",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450300223",
series = "Proceedings of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies III Workshop, INT3 '10",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies III Workshop, INT3 '10",
note = "Intelligent Narrative Technologies III Workshop, INT3 '10 ; Conference date: 18-06-2010 Through 18-06-2010",
}