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Analysis of Japanese folktales for the purpose of story generation

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Takaaki Kato,

Koji Miyazaki,

Ryohei NakatsuAuthors Info & Claims

DIMEA '08: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts

Pages 415 - 419

https://doi.org/10.1145/1413634.1413707

Published: 10 September 2008 Publication History

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We are developing an interactive folktale system in which users can enjoy both the generation of Japanese folktales as well as interaction with the system. In order to generate any kind of Japanese folktale, the system must give each character appearing in the folktales the ability to achieve a sufficient number of motions. To determine the number of motions that need to be prepared for the system, we carried out an analysis of the verbs that appear in Japanese folktales. Based on the analysis of 50 representative Japanese folktales, we found that the total number of verbs used is more than 2,000. By deleting the overlap of verbs in different folktales, while giving consideration to their meanings in actual usage, the number decreased to about 900. In addition, by restricting the verbs to those that can be expressed by computer graphics, the total number of verbs further decreased to about 100. Then we carried out experiments on generating various scenes of Japanese folktales by using several motion sets, each of which is a subset of the 100 motions corresponding to the reduced verbs. Finally, we evaluated the least number of animations needed to generate animations of sufficient quality.

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Arasawa RHanaue KWatanabe T(2011)Composition of Japanese folk-tales based on STRIPS-like frameworkProceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part IV10.5555/2041497.2041500(14-23)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2011
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Arasawa RHanaue KWatanabe T(2011)Composition of Japanese Folk-Tales Based on STRIPS-Like FrameworkKnowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems10.1007/978-3-642-23866-6_2(14-23)Online publication date: 2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23866-6_2

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Analysis of Japanese folktales for the purpose of story generation
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Graphics file formats
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Graphics input devices

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DIMEA '08: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts

September 2008

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ISBN:9781605582481

DOI:10.1145/1413634

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Santucci JDoja ACapocchi L(2020)A Discrete-Event Simulation of Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Structural Analysis of Myths Based on Symmetry and Double Twist TransformationsSymmetry10.3390/sym1210170612:10(1706)Online publication date: 16-Oct-2020
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Arasawa RHanaue KWatanabe T(2011)Composition of Japanese folk-tales based on STRIPS-like frameworkProceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part IV10.5555/2041497.2041500(14-23)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2041497.2041500
Arasawa RHanaue KWatanabe T(2011)Composition of Japanese Folk-Tales Based on STRIPS-Like FrameworkKnowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems10.1007/978-3-642-23866-6_2(14-23)Online publication date: 2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23866-6_2

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