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Research and Development

Category: Linguistics

The Recommendation of Advice and Wisdom

Introduction Wise people share advice and wisdom in the forms of allegories, anecdotes, aphorisms, apologues, fables, folklore, historical analogues, jokes, literature, lyrics, parables, poems, proverbs, quotations, stories, and witticisms. It is a multidisciplinary challenge to build artificial intelligence systems capable of these tasks. Towards solving this challenge, a new approach is presented: story-based search and […]

The History of Ideas

Introduction Essays in History of Ideas by Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being by Arthur O. Lovejoy, Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas by Quentin Skinner, A Companion to Intellectual History edited by Richard Whatmore and Brian Young, What is Intellectual History? by Richard Whatmore, Modelling the History of Ideas by […]

Higher-order Theory of Mind

Art Intention and Interpretation edited by Gary Iseminger, Art, Intention, and Conversation by Noël Carroll, The Perception of Intention by Verena Dasser, Ib Ulbaek and David Premack, Design as Communication: Exploring the Validity and Utility of Relating Intention to Interpretation by Nathan Crilly, David Good, Derek Matravers and P. John Clarkson, Intention, Interpretation, and Contemporary […]

Computational Memetic Analysis

Memes The Meme Machine by Susan J. Blackmore, Understanding the Emergence of Conventions in Multi-agent Systems by Adam Walker and Michael J. Wooldridge and On Selfish Memes: Culture as Complex Adaptive System by Hokky Situngkir. GlossaryMemeMemetics Metaphors The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual System by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Mental Representation, Conceptual Spaces […]

Computational Modeling of Diachronic Semantics

Introduction Change Summarization of Diachronic Scholarly Paper Collections by Semantic Evolution Analysis by Naman Paharia, Muhammad S. M. Pozi and Adam Jatowt, Survey of Computational Approaches to Lexical Semantic Change Detection by Nina Tahmasebi, Lars Borin and Adam Jatowt and Diachronic Word Embeddings and Semantic Shifts: A Survey by Andrey Kutuzov, Lilja Ovrelid, Terrence Szymanski […]

Large Language Models

Introduction A Survey of Large Language Models by Wayne X. Zhao, Kun Zhou, Junyi Li, Tianyi Tang, Xiaolei Wang, Yupeng Hou, Yingqian Min, Beichen Zhang, Junjie Zhang, Zican Dong, Yifan Du, Chen Yang, Yushuo Chen, Zhipeng Chen, Jinhao Jiang, Ruiyang Ren, Yifan Li, Xinyu Tang, Zikang Liu, Peiyu Liu, Jian-Yun Nie and Ji-Rong Wen. GlossaryLarge […]

Corpus Narratology

Introduction Quantitative Methods in Narratology by David Herman and The Scope of Empirical Narratology by Andreas Wirag. GlossaryCorpus LinguisticsNarratologyText Corpus Causality Commonsense Causal Reasoning Using Millions of Personal Stories by Andrew Gordon, Cosmin Bejan and Kenji Sagae. GlossaryCausality Morality Learning Norms from Stories: A Prior for Value Aligned Agents by Md Sultan Al Nahian, Spencer […]

Digital Humanities and Machine Ethics

Introduction A Survey on Machine Reading Comprehension Systems by Razieh Baradaran, Razieh Ghiasi and Hossein Amirkhani, Machine Reading Comprehension: A Literature Review by Xin Zhang, An Yang, Sujian Li and Yizhong Wang and Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend by Karl M. Hermann, Tomas Kocisky, Edward Grefenstette, Lasse Espeholt, Will Kay, Mustafa Suleyman and Phil […]

The Measurement of Literacy and the Analysis of Literature Discussions

Introduction On Measuring Literacy by Kaushik Basu and James E. Foster, Monitoring and Measuring Literacy by Daniel A. Wagner and International Literacy Statistics: A Review of Concepts, Methodology and Current Data by Roy A. Carr-Hill and Jose Pessoa. GlossaryLiteracyRelated ContentCognitive Literary StudiesInterpretive Discussions and ArgumentationLinguistics Writing Assessing Writing by Sara C. Weigle and Automated Essay […]

Narrative, Intertextuality and Creativity

Narrative Space Story Planning: Creativity through Exploration, Retrieval, and Analogical Transformation by Mark O. Riedl, Story Planning as Exploratory Creativity: Techniques for Expanding the Narrative Search Space by Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young and Computationally Creative Search for Stories by Mark O. Riedl. GlossaryDesign Space ExplorationSpaceState SpaceRelated ContentDesign § Design Spaces Abstraction and […]