Can believable characters act unexpectedly?

Unexpectedness is a major factor controlling interest in narratives. Emotions, for instance, are felt intensely if they are associated with unexpected events. The problem with generating unexpected situations is that either characters, or the whole story, are at risk of being no longer believable. T...

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Published in:	Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 606 - 621
Main Authors:	Saillenfest, Antoine, Dessalles, Jean-Louis
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Dec2014
Subjects:	Computational linguistics Narratives Emotions Storytelling Literary characters
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