The structure of narrative: The case of film scripts

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 302-312

  Murtagh, Fionn ^a   Ganz, Adam ^a   McKie, Stewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correspondence analysis; Data analysis; Data mining; Euclidean display; Factor analysis; Film script; Hierarchical clustering; Narrative; Semantic space; Story

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; EUCLIDEAN DISPLAY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FILM SCRIPT; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; NARRATIVE; SEMANTIC SPACE; STORY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 53449091668     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.05.026     Document Type: Article

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