Stories and Social Networks

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-99-01, Issue , 1999, Pages 30-37

  Sack, Warren ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

MAP SYSTEMS; NETWORK-BASED APPROACH; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; STORY UNDERSTANDING; TELEVISION SHOWS;

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References (18)

1. In this paper “social network” means a set of interrelated people. The phrase comes from social science. See, for example, Stanley Wasserman and Joseph Galaskiewicz (editors) Advances in Social Network Analysis: Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Sage Pub.: Thousand Oaks, CA, 1994).
2. “…common sense is our storehouse of narrative structures, and it remains the source of intelligibility and certainty in human affairs." Roy Schafer. "Narration in the Psychoanalytic Dialogue" In W.J.T. Mitchell (editor) On Narrative (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981)
3. Benedict Anderson. Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983).
4. Stuart Hall. “The rediscovery of ‘ideology’: return of the repressed in media studies” In M. Gurevitch, T. Bennett, J. Curran, J. Woollacott (editors) Culture, Society and the Media for instance, Henry Jenkins, Op. Cit.
5. This distinction between research approaches in media studies (i.e., “content analysis” versus ethnographic approaches to the “active audience”) has been recently explained in books such as Virginia Nightingale. Studying Audiences: The Shock of the Real (New York: Routledge, 1996).
6. Sherry Turkle. The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984).
7. Michel Foucault. “Technologies of the Self” in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984), Volume One. Edited by Paul Rabinow. Translated by Robert Hurley and others (New York: The New Press, 1997).
8. While this intersection of social network and content analysis has been envisioned in sociology attempts to design and implement computer programs that combine sophisticated computational linguistic analysis with social network analysis are as yet unrealized.
9. The tool described in the following paper is used: Jeffrey C. Reynar and Adwait Ratnaparkhi. “A Maximum Entropy Approach to Identifying Sentence Boundaries.” In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, March 31-April 3, 1997. Washington, D.C.
10. We use a list of discourse markers compiled by Daniel Marcu. The Rhetorical Parsing, Summarization, and Generation of Natural Language Texts, Ph.D. Thesis (Toronto: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, December 1997)
11. A simple trigram based tagger is used to accomplish the part-of-speech tagging.
12. The database containing morphological and syntactic information comes from the University of Pennsylvania: Daniel Karp, Yves Schabes, Martin Zaidel, and Dania Egedi. "A Freely Available Wide Coverage Morphological Analyzer for English" COLING-92.
13. The partial parser is a re-implementation and revision of the parser described here: Gregory Grefenstette. Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery (Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, 1994).
14. See Michael A.K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan Cohesion in English (Longman: New York, 1976). The lexical cohesion analysis procedure we have developed is akin to, but different than, the one described here: Graeme Hirst and David St-Onge. “Lexical Chains as Representations of Context for the Detection and Correction of Malapropisms” In Christiane Fellbaum (editor) WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998).
15. An algorithm similar to the one described in Gregory Grefenstette, Op. Cit. is used.
16. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By (University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1980).
17. Michael A.K. Halliday. An Introduction to Functional Grammar, Second Edition (Edward Arnold: London, 1994).
18. A Hallidayean framework is also being applied by other researchers working on similar corpora, but with simpler text analysis procedures; see, for example, Simeon J. Yates “Oral and written linguistic aspects of computer conferencing” in Susan C. Herring (editor) Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (John Benjamins Pub. Co.: Philadelphia, 1996).