ID: 2021-054 Toolbox for the Structural Analysis of Narratives: The Scatter Plot of Entities and the Narrative Flow Graph

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The technology, referred to as the "Toolbox for the Structural Analysis of Narratives," includes two distinct computer programs that generate visualizations of narrative texts. These visualizations are the Scatter Plot of Entities and the Narrative Flow Graph. The purpose of these tools is to assist analysts in understanding and evaluating narratives by automatically identifying key structural elements, thus addressing the complex and time-consuming nature of manual narrative analysis.
Scatter Plot of Entities: This visualization helps users to:
Narrative Flow Graph: This visualization enables users to:
These visualizations are designed to maximize insight into the underlying story while being as close to completely automatic as possible. This technology offers a unique approach by characterizing the overall arc of a narrative, unlike tools such as social network extraction, event extraction, or sentiment analysis, which focus on isolated elements.
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The "Toolbox for the Structural Analysis of Narratives" comprises two distinct computer programs that generate visualizations of narrative texts: the Scatter Plot of Entities and the Narrative Flow Graph. These tools automatically analyze narratives, addressing the difficulty and time-consuming nature of manual evaluation. The Scatter Plot of Entities helps analysts partition a story into scenes, mark locations of plot importance, and identify influential entities, including when they are active and with whom. The Narrative Flow Graph allows analysts to infer scene locations (even when not explicit), decompose events into scenes, track entities across scenes, visualize overall narrative structure (including branching or parallel tracks), and understand plot-important scenes, including the climax. These visualizations are designed to maximize informativity and insight about the underlying story while being as close to completely automatic as possible. The core innovation lies in the automated, comprehensive visualization of the overall narrative arc, not just isolated elements. This differentiates it from technologies like social network extraction or sentiment analysis.
Phase 1: Understanding the Technology and its Potential
Phase 2: Intellectual Property and Legal Considerations
Phase 3: Business Model and Market Strategy
Phase 4: Development and Refinement
Phase 5: Launch and Growth
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