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3 - Decomposing Events and Storylines

from Part One - Foundational Components of Storylines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2021

Edited by
Tommaso Caselli ,
Eduard Hovy ,
Martha Palmer  and
Piek Vossen
Tommaso Caselli
Affiliation:
University of Groningen
Eduard Hovy
Affiliation:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
Martha Palmer
Affiliation:
University of Colorado Boulder
Piek Vossen
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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Summary

Stories are typically represented as a set of events and temporal or causal relations among events. In the metro map model of storylines, participants are represented as histories and events as interactions between participant histories. The metro map model calls for a decomposition of events into what each participant does (or what happens to each participant), as well as the interactions among participants. Such a decompositional model of events has been developed in linguistic semantics. Here, we describe this decompositional model of events and how it can be combined with a metro map model of storylines.

Keywords

event structureevent decompositionstorylinesmetro map modelaspectcausationforce dynamics
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Computational Analysis of Storylines
Making Sense of Events
 , pp. 67 - 86
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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