Abstract
In this paper the rationale and the first draft of a formal ontology for modeling narrative texts are presented. Building on the semiotic and structuralist narratology, and on the work carried out in the late 1980s by Giuseppe Gigliozzi in Italy, the focus of my research are the concepts of character and of narrative world/space. This formal model is expressed in the OWL 2 ontology language. The main reason to adopt a formal modeling approach is that I consider the purely probabilistic-quantitative methods (now widespread in digital literary studies) inadequate. An ontology, on one hand provides a tool for the analysis of strictly literary texts. On the other hand (though beyond the scope of the present work), its formalization can also represent a significant contribution towards grounding the application of storytelling methods outside of scholarly contexts.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-1_2
Highlights
In this paper I present the theoretical rationale of a research project at the intersection of narratology and computer science
There is a deep relation between the notion of character and that of narrative space
According to Lotman (1972) each character is defined by the narrative space to which it is bounded, and the hero is the only character that can move between different narrative spaces
Summary
In this paper I present the theoretical rationale of a research project at the intersection of narratology and computer science. The main project objective is to analyze some essential concepts of narratology, building on the work carried out since the late 1980s by Giuseppe Gigliozzi in Italy, and to model them using a formal ontology. The main reason to adopt a formal modeling approach is that I consider the purely probabilistic-quantitative methods widespread in digital literary studies largely inadequate. In my opinion they fail to catch the intrinsic intensional and semantic nature of many literary phenomena. On the contrary, this nature can be attained and made explicit and computable using a mixed human-machine approach, like that required by ontology modeling. On the other side (which is not addressed in the present work), the formalization can represent a significant contribution in grounding the application of storytelling methods outside of scholarly contexts
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