Narrative Discourse Structure Creation Support System for Reflecting Theme and Emotional Impression

Abstract

Authors sometimes create narratives for the purpose of conveying the message (theme ). In addition, they often start with deciding the emotional genre (emotional impression), such as “sad story.” So far, our research group has defined a narrative discourse structure and has proposed the process for creating it from the theme and emotional impression. The process determines the order of deriving the elements in the discourse structure. However, some authors found difficult to derive them. This paper proposes a system for the step-by-step creation of the discourse structure along with the process by giving supports of deriving the elements.