Predicting the effects of suspenseful outcome for automatic storytelling

Delatorre, Pablo; León, Carlos; Salguero, Alberto; Tapscott, Alan

doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2020.106450

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“…The tool has been used in several studies (e.g., Delatorre et al, 2021;Zucco et al, 2020) and its ecological validity has also been proved. For instance, Delatorre et al (2020) found that suspense book passages ranged from negative to neutral-negative Semantria scores (M = 0.189, SD = 0.134), while non-suspense passages ranged from neutral to positive. The two story passages were equivalent for number of words (in Italian, 148 in text A and 146 in text B) and syllables (306 in text A and 307 in text B), as well as for readability (Gulpease index = 66 for text A and 64 for text B; 100 = maximum readability).…”

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Effects of negative emotional valence on readers’ text processing and memory for text: an eye-tracking study

2022

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Comprehension of stories requires readers to take the perspective of the story characters and imagine or feel their cognitive and affective states. The study investigated how variations in emotional valence within a literary text affected readers’ global text processing, as reflected in their eye movements during the first and second-pass reading, and their memory for text. Processes of reading were also examined in relation to readers’ dispositional empathy. Undergraduate students (N = 42) were assigned to an emotionally negative or neutral reading condition. They read a natural text passage from a suspense story while their ocular behavior was registered. After reading, they responded to multiple-choice questions assessing their memory of the text. Results revealed longer first-pass fixation times for content evoking negative emotions than for neutral content, which could be suggestive of a more analytical processing of the former. These effects were however local and did not impact the processing of the text at global level. Memory for the emotionally negative content was more accurate than memory for the neutral content. Dispositional empathy did not contribute to reading processes and outcome. Findings are discussed against the mixed results in the current literature and practical implications are also outlined.

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“…In the original work [40], this fitness function assigned the same weight to each cluster; that is, w i = w j = 1, ∀ U i , U j . This is because no previous study in the literature provides quantitative values for these weights, as previously indicated.…”

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“…Variable replacement in the templates was carried out with a simple parser. The evolutionary algorithm replaces the placeholders in the templates by term values belonging to the specific family defined by such placeholders (places or outcomes, for example) [40]. Table 3 details the placeholder variables used in the templates.…”

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“…The emotional impact of the terms, such as those exemplified in Table 1, was studied in detail, and their effects of the final perception of suspense were quantified [35]- [39]. In [40], this information was used to compute a preliminary, original predictive model, and to implement an evolutionary algorithm. However, the system did not differentiate between distinct types of elements: Despite the fact of a potential outcome may have a different impact on suspense than a decorative element in the scene, the original fitness function just used the mean of suspense evoked by the different terms regardless of their type.…”

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Improving the Fitness Function of an Evolutionary Suspense Generator Through Sentiment Analysis

2021

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The perception of suspense in stories is affected not only by general literary aspects like narrative structure and linguistic features, but also by anticipation and evocation of feelings like aversion, disgust or empathy. As such, it is possible to alter the feeling of suspense by modifying components of a story that convey these feelings to the audience. Based on a previous straightforward model of suspense adaptation, this paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a computational system that adapts narrative scenes for conveying a specific user-defined amount of suspense. The system is designed to address the impact of different types of emotional components on the reader. The relative weighted suspense of these components is computed with a regression model based on a sentiment analysis tool, and used as a fitness function in an evolutionary algorithm. This new function is able to identify the different weights on the prediction of suspense in aspects like outcome, decorative elements, or threat's appearance. The results indicate that this approach represents a significant improvement over the previous existing approach.

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An Analogous Review of the Challenges and Endeavor in Suspense Story Generation Technique

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2023

Springer Proceedings in Mathematics &Amp; Statistics

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Predicting the effects of suspenseful outcome for automatic storytelling

Cited by 6 publications

References 45 publications

Effects of negative emotional valence on readers’ text processing and memory for text: an eye-tracking study

Effects of negative emotional valence on readers’ text processing and memory for text: an eye-tracking study

Improving the Fitness Function of an Evolutionary Suspense Generator Through Sentiment Analysis

An Analogous Review of the Challenges and Endeavor in Suspense Story Generation Technique

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