Rule Based Appraisal of Emotions in Drama

In stories, the emotional charge of the characters plays an important role in engaging the audience. The emotional states of the characters allow the audience to understand their motivations and to perceive their reactions to a dramatic situation. In this paper, relying on a semantic representation of the drama features, we present and evaluate an emotional rule system that generates the characters’ emotions based on their representation of their mental states.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Vincenzo Lombardo, Rossana Damiano, Cristina Battaglino, Antonio Pizzo
• Keywords: ATAL 2015, Intelligent Agents