On Formalizing Narratives

The activities of people as well as of artificial agents in reality, virtual reality or simulation can be recorded as data that discretize trajectories of body parts and the ensuing force events. While these data provide vast amounts of information they are, by themselves, meaningless. Only when we put them into context we assign a specific meaning to these data. Increasingly, the notion of narratives is being used to describe the result of this semiotic process, i.e. we observe events and fit them into a story that makes sense to us. In this work a formal model is presented and discussed that can be employed to represent a narrative using the subset of FOL that is expressible in OWL DL.