May 2017

The project I am currently planning can be broken down into several iterations on the same theme. I'll try and break it down here, noting that this is not a finalized roadmap, just my current headspace. There's bound to be some overlap and messiness as I sort these concepts out.

Digital Representation

Player characters are represented in a digital format. I do generate character background with a program which takes the six ability scores, sex, and character class as input; however, the generated info is then printed onto paper and used as a supplement to the character sheet, so it doesn't remain digital. Note that for this stage I am only talking about a computational object which represents the character.

After a year of work, I am happy to say that this week I successfully defended my thesis. In my research I was primarily concerned with gathering empirical data regarding a particular question construction in Mandarin Chinese, and the results of my collections show the necessity of expanding current syntactic theories regarding this type of question.