A computational theory of perspective and reference in narrative

  • Authors:
  • Janyce M. Wiebe;William J. Rapaport

  • Affiliations:
  • State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY;State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

Narrative passages told from a character's perspective convey the character's thoughts and perceptions. We present a discourse process that recognizes characters' thoughts and perceptions in third-person narrative. An effect of perspective on reference in narrative is addressed: references in passages told from the perspective of a character reflect the character's beliefs. An algorithm that uses the results of our discourse process to understand references with respect to an appropriate set of beliefs is presented.