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Category: Writing

Multiagent Question-answering Systems

Introduction Large language models can generate content while role-playing, or impersonating, characters and personas (Shanahan, McDonell, & Reynolds, 2023). They can be fine-tuned using the works of individual philosophers to subsequently generate virtually indistinguishable responses (Schwitzgebel, Schwitzgebel, & Strasser, 2023). They can generate content from specified stances, positions, perspectives, and schools of thought. They can […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, Reflection and Wisdom

Cognitive Narratology Stories of Wisdom to Live by: Developing Wisdom in a Narrative Mode by Michel Ferrari, Nic M. Weststrate and Anda Petro, The Science of Stories: An Introduction to Narrative Psychology by János László, Narratology as a Cognitive Science by David Herman, Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences by David Herman, The Cognitive Turn […]

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 […]

Dialogue Systems and Information Retrieval

Dialogue Systems LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications by Romal Thoppilan, Daniel De Freitas, Jamie Hall, Noam Shazeer, Apoorv Kulshreshtha, Heng-Tze Cheng, Alicia Jin, Taylor Bos, Leslie Baker, Yu Du, YaGuang Li, Hongrae Lee, Huaixiu Steven Zheng, Amin Ghafouri, Marcelo Menegali, Yanping Huang, Maxim Krikun, Dmitry Lepikhin, James Qin, Dehao Chen, Yuanzhong Xu, Zhifeng Chen, […]

Psychoanalytic Natural Language Processing

Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism by Maud Ellmann, The Mind and the Book: A Long Look at Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism by Norman N. Holland, Examining Multiple Features for Author Profiling by Edson R. D. Weren, Anderson U. Kauer, Lucas Mizusaki, Viviane P. Moreira, J. Palazzo M. de Oliveira and Leandro K. Wives, Machine Learning […]

Worldbuilding

Imaginary Worlds Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation by Mark J. P. Wolf, The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds edited by Mark J. P. Wolf, World-building Tools by David Langdon, Ways of Worldmaking by Nelson Goodman, Actual Minds, Possible Worlds by Jerome Bruner and Experiencing Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of […]