Narrative prose generation

  • Authors:
  • Charles B. Callaway;James C. Lester

  • Affiliations:
  • ITC-irst, Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Via Sommarive, 18, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy;Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Narrative generation has historically suffered from poor writing quality, stemming from a narrow focus on story grammars and plot design. Moreover, to-date natural language generation systems have not been capable of faithfully reproducing either the variety or complexity of naturally occurring narratives. In this article we first propose a model of narrative derived from work in narratology and grounded in observed linguistic phenomena. Next we describe the AUTHOR architecture for narrative generation and an end-to-end implementation of the AUTHOR model in the STORYBOOK narrative prose generation system. Finally, we present a formal evaluation of the narratives that STORYBOOK produces.