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A short, animated storytelling video to reduce addiction stigma: A pilot randomized controlled trial Open

Maxwell C. Klapow, Misha Seeff, Maya Adam, Merlin Greuel, Daniel Hoffman , et al. · 2025

This pilot study demonstrates the feasibility of proceeding with our registered, largescale, multi-country, online RCT. The significant effect observed in a relatively small pilot population, after a single exposure to this 2.5 min SAS int…

Short, Animated Storytelling Video to Reduce Addiction Stigma in 13,500 Participants Across Multiple Countries Through an Online Approach: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial Open

Maya Adam, Maxwell C. Klapow, Merlin Greuel, Misha Seeff, Julia K. Rohr , et al. · 2025

Background Stigma toward people with addiction is a well-documented phenomenon that dramatically impacts help-seeking, treatment, and recovery. Interventions aimed at reducing stigma toward those with addiction must overcome the frequent m…

From Test-Taking to Test-Making: Examining LLM Authoring of Commonsense Assessment Items Open

Melissa Roemmele, Andrew S. Gordon · 2024

LLMs can now perform a variety of complex writing tasks. They also excel in answering questions pertaining to natural language inference and commonsense reasoning. Composing these questions is itself a skilled writing task, so in this pape…

StoryUpgrade: Finding Stories in Internet Weblogs Open

Andrew S. Gordon, Reid Swanson · 2021

The phenomenal rise of Internet weblogging has created new opportunities for people to tell personal stories of their life experience, and the potential to share these stories with those who can most benefit from reading them. One barrier …

PFL+: A Kernal Scheme for Functions I/O Open

Andrew S. Gordon · 2021

In place of the common separation of functional I/O into continuation and stream based schemes, an alternative division between Data Driven and Strictness Driven mechanisms for I/O is proposed. The data driven mechanism determines I/O acti…

Attributing Minds to Triangles: Kinematics and Observer-Animator Kinematic Similarity predict Mental State Attribution in the Animations Task Open

Bianca Schuster, Dagmar S. Fraser, Jasper J.F. van den Bosch, Sophie Sowden, Andrew S. Gordon , et al. · 2021

The ability to ascribe mental states, such as beliefs or desires to oneself and other individuals forms an integral part of everyday social interaction. One task that has been extensively used to test mental state attribution in a variety …

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Andrew S. Gordon, Rob Miller, Leora Morgenstern, György Turán · 2020

Deep Natural Language Understanding of News Text Open

Jaya Shree, Emily Liu, Andrew S. Gordon, Jerry R. Hobbs · 2019

Early proposals for the deep understanding of natural language text advocated an approach of “interpretation as abduction,” where the meaning of a text was derived as an explanation that logically entailed the input words, given a knowledg…

Automated Assistance for Creative Writing with an RNN Language Model Open

Melissa Roemmele, Andrew S. Gordon · 2018

This work demonstrates an interface, Creative Help, that assists people with creative writing by automatically suggesting new sentences in a story. Authors can freely edit the generated suggestions, and the application tracks their modific…

Comparing Speech and Text Input in Interactive Narratives Open

Diego González, Andrew S. Gordon · 2018

Intelligent user interfaces are finding new applications in interactive narratives, where players take on the role of a character in a fictional storyline. A recent example is the interactive audio narrative "Traveler", in which a combinat…

Linguistic Features of Helpfulness in Automated Support for Creative Writing Open

Melissa Roemmele, Andrew S. Gordon · 2018

We examine an emerging NLP application that supports creative writing by automatically suggesting continuing sentences in a story. The application tracks users' modifications to generated sentences, which can be used to quantify their "hel…

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Storytelling Open

Anna Kasunic, Geoff Kaufman, Melissa Roemmele, Andrew S. Gordon, Jon Gillick , et al. · 2018

In this opinion piece, we argue that there is a need for alternative design directions to complement existing AI efforts in narrative and character generation and algorithm development.To make our argument, we a) outline the predominant ro…

An Encoder-decoder Approach to Predicting Causal Relations in Stories Open

Melissa Roemmele, Andrew S. Gordon · 2018

We address the task of predicting causally related events in stories according to a standard evaluation framework, the Choice of Plausible Alternatives (COPA). We present a neural encoder-decoder model that learns to predict relations betw…

An Empirical Analysis of Subjectivity and Narrative Levels in Weblog Storytelling Across Cultures Open

Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon, Peter Khooshabeh, Kenji Sagae, Richard Huskey , et al. · 2017

Storytelling is a universal activity, but the way in which discourse structure is used to persuasively convey ideas and emotions may depend on cultural factors. Because first-person accounts of life experiences can have a powerful impact i…

Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2017 Open

Mike Treanor, Nicholas Warren, M. J. Reed, Adam M. Smith, Pablo Ortiz , et al. · 2017

This paper describes the accepted entries to the fifth Playable Experiences track to be held at the AIIDE conference. The Playable Experiences track showcases complete works that make use of artificial intelligence techniques as an integra…

Unsupervised Text Classification for Natural Language Interactive Narratives Open

Jenna Bellassai, Andrew S. Gordon, Melissa Roemmele, Margaret Cychosz, Obiageli Odimegwu , et al. · 2017

Natural language interactive narratives are a variant of traditional branching storylines where player actions are expressed in natural language rather than by selecting among choices. Previous efforts have handled the richness of natural …

"The Long Walk" From Linear Film to Interactive Narrative Open

Keshav Prasad, Kayla Briët, Obiageli Odimegwu, Olivia Connolly, Diego González , et al. · 2017

Advances in hardware and software for virtual reality and 360-degree video afford new opportunities for immersive digital storytelling, but also pose new challenges as players seek an increased sense of meaningful agency in fictional story…

Decoding the neural representation of story meanings across languages Open

Morteza Dehghani, Reihane Boghrati, Kingson Man, Joe Hoover, Sarah I. Gimbel , et al. · 2017

Drawing from a common lexicon of semantic units, humans fashion narratives whose meaning transcends that of their individual utterances. However, while brain regions that represent lower‐level semantic units, such as words and sentences, h…

An RNN-based Binary Classifier for the Story Cloze Test Open

Melissa Roemmele, Sosuke Kobayashi, Naoya Inoue, Andrew S. Gordon · 2017

The Story Cloze Test consists of choosing a sentence that best completes a story given two choices. In this paper we present a system that performs this task using a supervised binary classifier on top of a recurrent neural network to pred…

Natural-language Interactive Narratives in Imaginal Exposure Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Open

Melissa Roemmele, Paola Mardo, Andrew S. Gordon · 2017

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety-based disorder that affects around 2.5% of the population. A common treatment for OCD is exposure therapy, where the patient repeatedly confronts a feared experience, which has the long-ter…

An Adaptation of Topic Modeling to Sentences Open

Ruey-Cheng Chen, Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon · 2016

Advances in topic modeling have yielded effective methods for characterizing the latent semantics of textual data. However, applying standard topic modeling approaches to sentence-level tasks introduces a number of challenges. In this pape…

Collaborating to Create a Culture of Data Stewardship Open

Vicky Steeves, Kevin Read, Andrew S. Gordon · 2016

Our poster discusses the ways in which we collaborate across the institution to provide comprehensive data management services by identifying overlap, making connections between service offerings, and sharing knowledge and resources around…

Commonsense Interpretation of Triangle Behavior Open

Andrew S. Gordon · 2016

The ability to infer intentions, emotions, and other unobservable psychological states from people's behavior is a hallmark of human social cognition, and an essential capability for future Artificial Intelligence systems. The commonsense …

Recognizing Human Actions in the Motion Trajectories of Shapes Open

Melissa Roemmele, Soja-Marie Morgens, Andrew S. Gordon, Louis‐Philippe Morency · 2016

People naturally anthropomorphize the movement of nonliving objects, as social psychologists Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel demonstrated in their influential 1944 research study. When they asked participants to narrate an animated film o…

Processing Narratives Concerning Protected Values: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Neural Correlates Open

Jonas Kaplan, Sarah I. Gimbel, Morteza Dehghani, Mary Helen Immordino‐Yang, Kenji Sagae , et al. · 2016

Narratives are an important component of culture and play a central role in transmitting social values. Little is known, however, about how the brain of a listener/reader processes narratives. A receiver's response to narration is influenc…

Bridging the Gap: Improving Data Services through Cross-Campus Collaboration Open

Vicky Steeves, Andrew S. Gordon, Kevin Read · 2016

Interactive Storytelling Open

Frank Nack, Andrew S. Gordon · 2016

Improving Fluency in Narrative Text Generation With Grammatical Transformations and Probabilistic Parsing Open

Emily Ahn, Fabrizio Morbini, Andrew S. Gordon · 2016

In research on automatic generation of narrative text, story events are often formally represented as a causal graph.When serializing and realizing this causal graph as natural language text, simple approaches produce cumbersome sentences …

Researcher-Library Collaborations: Data Repositories as a Service for Researchers Open

Andrew S. Gordon, David Millman, Lisa Steiger, Karen E. Adolph, Rick O. Gilmore · 2015

INTRODUCTION New interest has arisen in organizing, preserving, and sharing the raw materials—the data and metadata—that undergird the published products of research. Library and information scientists have valuable expertise to bring to b…

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