Cyberspace 2000: dealing with information overload
Communications of the ACM
Card shark and thespis: exotic tools for hypertext narrative
Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
Automatic Ontology-Based Knowledge Extraction from Web Documents
IEEE Intelligent Systems
AHA! The adaptive hypermedia architecture
Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
A thematic approach to emerging narrative structure
Proceedings of the hypertext 2008 workshop on Collaboration and collective intelligence
A semiotic approach for the generation of themed photo narratives
Proceedings of the 21st ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
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Narrative systems attempt to present users with media collections that include some element of structure or story, however these collections can lack an authorial voice and seem bland as a result. In this paper we explore how themes could be used to enrich automatically generated narratives, and describe how a system which generated story selections in the form of photo montages was developed using a thematic model of narrative. This was achieved by selecting narrative atoms, in this case photographs, from a selection of images on a specific subject with relevance to a desired theme. Our pilot study shows that our thematic system selects images with greater relevance to desired titles, and that the positive impact of thematic selection increases when the images are presented together. We hope that our thematic work will inform others working on narrative systems, and will lead to richer automated narratives.