Seminar, 8.–10. März 2013, Hamburg, im Rahmen des Programms „Stipendiaten machen Programm” der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
With the development of digital humanities, computational approaches to narrative theory are becoming increasingly important. The approach to narrative in computer science assumes that the full complexity of the narrative is reduced to a formal core that can be processed by a computer. Such a formal access to narratology is however already much older than the modern computer. It goes back to the Russian formalists (particularly Propp) and was developed further by the French structuralists such as Genette and Todorov
This seminar provides an overview of various formal models of narratives, such as those used in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. The experience is to be enhanced by the use of formalisms to narrative texts. Here the limitations of this approach will becomes apparent. Since the subject is a point of contact between human and formal sciences, the seminar should also provide insight into practical interdisciplinary research.
Universität Hamburg,
Geomatikum, Bundesstr. 55, 20146 Hamburg
Übernachtung:
Jugendherberge „Auf dem Stintfang“, Alfred-Wegener-Weg 5, 20459
Hamburg
The slides are password-protected. Participants can ask for the password.
Bernhard Fisseni, Aadil Kurji: General Introductory Slides
Lena Schüch: Computergestützte, narratologische Analysen mit Hilfe des Programms CATMA [PDF]
The slides contain more references to the literature.
Benedikt Löwe, Eric Pacuit (2008): “An abstract approach to reasoning about games with mistaken and changing beliefs”, Australasian Journal of Logic 6: 162–181.
Benedikt Löwe, Eric Pacuit, Sanchit Saraf (2009): “Identifying the structure of a narrative via an agent-based logic of preferences and beliefs: Formalizations of episodes from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation™”, in: Michael Duvigneau, Daniel Moldt (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Modelling of Objects, Components and Agents, MOCA'09, Hamburg [FBI-HH-B-290/09], 45–63
Wendy G. Lehnert (1981): “Plot Units and Narrative Summarization”. Cognitive Science 4:293–331.
Brian J. Reiser, John B. Black and Wendy G. Lehnert (1985): “Thematic knowledge structures in the understanding and generation of narratives”, Discourse Processes, 8:3, 357–389
Amit Goyal, Ellen Riloff, Hal Daume III and Nathan Gilbert (2010): Towards Plot Units. Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Analysis and Generation of Emotion in Text. Los Angeles, CA, Association for Computational Linguistics. 17–25.
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp. Morfologiya skazki. Akademiya, Leningrad, 1928.
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp. Morfologiya skazki. Nauka, Moscow, 2nd edition, 1969.
English: Vladimir Propp. Morphology of the folktale. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 2nd edition, 1958. (Translation of the first edition.)
Deutsch: Wladimir Propp. Morphologie des Märchens. Carl Hanser, München, 1972. (Übersetzung der zweiten Auflage; z.Z. nicht lieferbar.)
Français: Vladimir Propp. Morphologie du conte. Points, Paris, 1972. (Übersetzung der zweiten Auflage; lieferbar und günstig, aber leider ohne Übersichtstabelle.)