TOWARD A FORMAL ONTOLOGY FOR NARRATIVE

Toward a formal ontology for narrative

In this paper the rationale and the first draft of a formal ontology for modeling narrative texts are presented.Building on the semiotic and structuralist narratology, and on the work carried out in the late 1980s by Giuseppe Gigliozzi in Italy, the focus of my research are Teflon Sheets the concepts of character and of narrative world/space.This f

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A FORECASTING MODEL ON THE BASIS OF A FUZZY LEARNING SET

A problem of constructing a numeric forecasting evaluator on the basis of a fuzzy learning set is considered.The stated Panties general problem is connected to the definition of the missing fuzzy vector co-ordinates and their evaluation.The general formulation is divided into two tasks: to build a method producing missing fuzzy forecasting values w

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The Stock Market Reaction to Securities Class Action Filings

The purpose of this paper is to investigate stock price reaction to securities class action filings.A standard event study methodology, employing the Teflon Sheets market model, is applied to determine the abnormal returns both on and surrounding the lawsuit filing day.We utilize the Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse Database (SCAC)[1]

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