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Representation and Management of Complex ‘Narrative’ Information

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Language, Culture, Computation. Computing of the Humanities, Law, and Narratives

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In this paper, we evoke first the ubiquity and the importance of the so-called “non-fictional” narrative information. We show then that the usual knowledge representation and ontological techniques have difficulties in finding complete solutions for representing and using this type of information. We supply then some details about NKRL, a representation and querying/inferencing environment especially created for an ‘intelligent’ exploitation of (non-fictional) narratives. The paper will be illustrated with some examples concerning recent concrete applications of this language/environment.

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    Nachum Dershowitz

  2. Goldsmiths College, Department of Computing, University of London, 25–27 St. James, New Cross, SE14 6NW, London, UK

    Ephraim Nissan

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Zarri, G.P. (2014). Representation and Management of Complex ‘Narrative’ Information. In: Dershowitz, N., Nissan, E. (eds) Language, Culture, Computation. Computing of the Humanities, Law, and Narratives. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8002. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45324-3_8

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