As a piece of language, a narrative may be regarded as a sequence S of sentences about a sequence E of events. The possibility that the order of E does not align with S (violating so-called iconicity of sequence) is one of many challenges in understanding narratives. Others include the variety of granularities and the differing perspectives relative to which the sequences are understood. The project encodes these sequences as strings on which finite-state methods are applied to visualize narratives.
School of Computer Science and Statistics