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Generating Stories with Morals

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2013)

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Morals play an important role in why storytelling developed, and help provide stories with structure. We describe a storytelling system which generates short stories that convey one of six common morals identified in Aesop’s fables. Morals are represented in terms of patterns of character emotions that arise during the course of a story. To evaluate the system’s effectiveness, we compare system-generated stories with human-authored stories and random event sequences. We find system-generated stories convey morals significantly better than random.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Margaret Sarlej & Malcolm Ryan

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  1. Department of Telecommunications, University of Georg, 30602, Athens, GA, USA

    Hartmut Koenitz

  2. Faculty of Communications, Istanbul Bilgi University, Eyub, 34060, Istanbul, Turkey

    Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen

  3. School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Gabriele Ferri

  4. School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

    Mads Haahr

  5. Faculty of Communications, Istanbul University, Beyazit, 34452, Istanbul, Turkey

    Digdem Sezen

  6. Bahc̨es̨ehir University, Karaköy, 34425, Istanbul, Turkey

    Güven C̨atak

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Sarlej, M., Ryan, M. (2013). Generating Stories with Morals. In: Koenitz, H., Sezen, T.I., Ferri, G., Haahr, M., Sezen, D., C̨atak, G. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8230. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02756-2_26

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