The Dynamical Principles of Storytelling
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Abstract (arXiv)
When considering the opening part of 1800 short stories, we find that the first dozen paragraphs of the average narrative follow an action principle as defined in arXiv:2309.06600. When the order of the paragraphs is shuffled, the average no longer exhibits this property. The findings show that there is a preferential direction we take in semantic space when starting a story, possibly related to a common Western storytelling tradition as implied by Aristotle in Poetics.
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- 2013Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Spacecited by 4,375
- 2013Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionalitycited by 3,474
- 2023Narrative as a Dynamical Systemcited by 1
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