This issue of the journal “Sprache und Datenverarbeitung” brings together researchers from different areas in formal and computational models of narrative (narrative generation, planning, corpora) and shows emerging trends (network analysis) and challenges from other narrative sciences (cognitive psychology, narratology). It also discusses an aspect of the impact the research in the field has (military).
INHALT:

Bernhard Fisseni & Benedikt Löwe: Introduction;
Erik T. Mueller: Computational Models of Narrative;
R. Michael Young, Stephen Ware, Brad Cassell & Justus Robertson: Plans and Planning in Narrative Generation: A Review of Plan-Based Approaches to the Generation of Story, Discourse and Interactivity in Narratives;
Andrew Hamilton & Fritz Breithaupt: These Things Called Event: Toward a Unified Narrative Theory of Events;
Richard J. Gerrig & Jeffrey E. Foy: A Participatory Perspective on Readers’ Narrative Experiences;
Mark A. Finlayson: A Survey of Corpora in Computational and Cognitive Narrative Science;
Graham Alexander Sack: Social Network Analysis and Narrative: Reflections on Recent Literature;
Mark A. Finlayson & Steven R. Corman: The Military Interest in Narrative