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  <Title>Automatic Analysis of Plot for Story Rewriting</Title>
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2 The Story Rewriting Task
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In the story rewriting task, pupils rewrite a story in their own words, allowing them to focus on their writing ability instead of plot formulation. This task is currently used in Scottish schools and thus it was chosen to be the first feature of the plot analysis agent. We collected a corpus of 103 stories rewritten by children from classes at primary schools in Scotland. Pupils were told a story, an exemplar story, by a storyteller and were asked to rewrite the story in their own words.1 The automated plot analysis program must be able to give a general rating of the quality of the rewritten story's plot and be able to determine missing or incorrect events. The general rating can be used by the teacher to find out which pupils are in need of attention, while the more specific details can be used by an animated agent in StoryStation to remind the student of specific events and characters they have forgotten or misused.</Paragraph>
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