What killed the cat? Towards a logical formalization of curiosity (and suspense, and surprise) in narratives - Laboratoire des sciences et techniques de l'information, de la communication et de la connaissance
Conference Papers Year : 2024

What killed the cat? Towards a logical formalization of curiosity (and suspense, and surprise) in narratives

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We provide a unified framework in which the three emotions at the heart of narrative tension (curiosity, suspense and surprise) are formalized. This framework is built on nonmonotonic reasoning which allows us to compactly represent the default behavior of the world and to simulate the affective evolution of an agent receiving a story. After formalizing the notions of awareness, curiosity, surprise and suspense, we explore the properties induced by our definitions and study the computational complexity of detecting them. We finally propose means to evaluate these emotions' intensity for a given agent listening to a story.
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hal-04731383 , version 1 (10-10-2024)

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Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, Benjamin Callac, Eric Maisel. What killed the cat? Towards a logical formalization of curiosity (and suspense, and surprise) in narratives. 31st International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2024), Oct 2024, Montpellier, France. pp.10:1-10:16, ⟨10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2024.10⟩. ⟨hal-04731383⟩
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