Representation and Management of Narrative Information Theoretical P
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Gian Piero Zarri
Representation and Management of Narrative Information Theoretical Principles and Implementation
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Gian Piero Zarri Present Affiliation Virthualis Project Politecnico di Milano Milano, Italy [email protected]
AI&KP ISSN: 1610-3947 ISBN: 978-1-84800-077-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-84800-078-0
e-ISBN: 978-1-84800-078-0
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Preface
This book corresponds to a (provisional – see the ‘‘Conclusion,’’ Chapter 5) assessment of more of 30 years of work about the possibility of dealing in an ‘‘intelligent’’ and ‘‘automated’’ way with ‘‘narratives’’ – in short, with the description of the modalities according to which some ‘‘characters’’ (not necessarily human) ‘‘behave.’’ The results obtained up to now in this context, i.e. the Narrative Knowledge Representation Language (NKRL), will be described here in the best possible complete way. Note, however, that, for clarity’s sake, (i) we will avoid as much as possible introducing in the text any cumbersome axiomatic details and, on the other hand, (ii) we have not conceived this book as a practical ‘‘manual’’ of NKRL. We will, nevertheless, supply regularly, in the following chapters, precise indications on where to find the missing ‘‘formal’’ and ‘‘operational’’ information. All the Web addresses mentioned in the book, both in the text and in the References, were checked for accuracy in November 2007. The origin of the work described here can be retraced back to 1974, when, after 10 years of professional activity distributed among industry (automation of industrial processes) and academic research at the Centre of Cybernetics and Linguistics Activities of the University of Milan directed by Silvio Ceccato, I was hired as a researcher by the French Nat
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