Character networks for narrative generation: Structural balance theory and the emergence of proto-narratives

Complexity and the Human Experience: Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 81-104

  Sack, Graham Alexander ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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DOI: 10.4032/9789814463270     Document Type: Chapter

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