Introduction Artificial-intelligence systems capable of asking, managing, and answering questions while incrementally processing and analyzing texts can enhance: story comprehension and prediction, automatic item generation, synthetic data generation, automatic text summarization, the design and engineering of instructional materials and technical documentation, and the writing of stories. Modeling Reading Historical approaches to computationally modeling the various […]
Introduction Man-machine literature discussions about moral stories could provide value both to individuals (Goldenberg, 1992) and to artificial-intelligence systems (Sinatra, Graesser, Hu, Brawner, & Rus, 2019; Tong & Hu, 2024). User Modeling Self-improving adaptive instructional systems model users, both learners and experts. These models can be more generic, or stereotype-based, or more specific and highly […]
Introduction Computational storyboarding builds upon traditional storyboarding techniques, combining elements from screenplays, storyboards, functions, diagrams, and animation. Computational storyboards are intended to be of use as input for generative artificial-intelligence systems to create longer-form output video. A motivating use case is simplifying the creation of educational videos, e.g., lecture videos. With computational storyboards, content creators […]
Automated Historical Research Today, research is underway into aiding and automating scientific and scholarly research processes. Zhang, Pearson, and Wang (2024) discuss automated scientific research in the form of literature reviews. Kang and Xiong (2024) have developed a benchmark for measuring artificial-intelligence systems’ capabilities with respect to conducting academic surveys. In the not-too-distant future, artificial-intelligence […]
Introduction The challenge addressed here is that of ensuring that all applicable rules, laws, and regulations are loaded into artificial-intelligence agents' working memories as they encounter wide, potentially open-ended, sets of situations. By agents being able to search for, retrieve, and load applicable rules, laws, and regulations into their working memories, they could be in […]
Introduction Personas for role-playing language agents can be categorized into three distinct categories: demographic personas, character personas, and individualized personas (Chen, Wang, Xu, Tuan, Zhang, Shi, & Xie, 2024). Demographic personas focus on groups of people sharing common characteristics. Character personas represent well-established, widely-recognized individuals. Individualized personas refer to digital profiles built and continuously updated […]
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 […]
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 […]
Introduction Using Sequences of Life-events to Predict Human Lives by Germans Savcisens, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Lars K. Hansen, Laust H. Mortensen, Lau Lilleholt, Anna Rogers, Ingo Zettler and Sune Lehmann and Commonsense Causal Reasoning Using Millions of Personal Stories by Andrew Gordon, Cosmin Bejan and Kenji Sagae. GlossaryBiographyNarrativePredictionRelated ContentCorpus NarratologyMachine Learning and NarrativeMachine Reading Comprehension and […]
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 […]