A Comparative Analysis of Formal Storytelling Representation Models

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the various formal models that can be used to represent a story. The analysis focuses on two types of representation families: semantics-based representations, which use ontologies, and process-based representations. The aim is to provide a comparative overview of the models, analyzing their weaknesses and strengths, in order to determine the formal model that best lends itself to modeling a story by highlighting its main components in terms of the actors involved, events, actions, spatio-temporal relations, as well as cause and effect, in hopes of identifying the formal story representation model that can be used as the starting point for developing a framework that can perform automated storytelling generation. Finally, examples are given of the uses of these models to represent a mythological story.