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Students

Brent Hecht, Geography

Nicole Starosielski, Film Studies

Jason Wither, Computer Science

Faculty Advisors

Keith Clarke, Geography
Tobias Hollerer, Computer Science

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Abstract

Building off of a successful proof-of-concept completed in the first year of work, the goal of Minotour 2.0 is to produce a “narrative mining” strategy that has a stronger narrative theory foundation and results in narratives that perform well in user testing. In order to determine the optimal such strategy, Minotour 2.0 will produce a large variety of algorithmic variations that will be evaluated in a user study at the end of the summer. These variations will include both two- and three-anchor narrative curves (start + end and start + climax + end) and will incorporate new variables including semantic relatedness between articles and the interests of the user. The user study will test narratives produced by Minotour 2.0 against a randomly generated baseline to determine whether or not users are experiencing the texts using their innate narrative schema.