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Evaluation of automatic generation of basic stories

New Generation Computing volume 24, pages 289–302 (2006)Cite this article

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This paper presents an application that automatically generatesbasic stories: short texts that only narrate the main events of the plot. The system operates with a representation in Description Logics, combining stored fabulas with the narrative knowledge implemented in a domain-specific ontology. The domain of application is the traditional folk tale, using the well-known morphology of Vladimir Propp as narratological background. In order to evaluate the results, human judges blindly compared one of the generated basic stories to two alternatives: one rendered directly from a stored fabula of the knowledge base and another randomly generated. As a conclusion, possibilities of measuring the utility of the system in terms of quality and originality of the generated artifact are discussed.

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Federico Peinado: He is a Teaching Assistant at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He received his B.S. and M. Phil. in Computer Engineering from the UCM in 2002 & 2004. His research is focused on Computational Narratology, Game Design and the applications of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Creativity to humanistic domains.

Pablo Gervás, Ph.D.: He is Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He received his B.S. from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1990 and his Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 1995. He has contributed research results in information retrieval, natural language generation, casebased reasoning and computational creativity.

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Peinado, F., Gervás, P. Evaluation of automatic generation of basic stories. New Gener Comput 24, 289–302 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03037336

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Keywords

  • Story Generation
  • Computational Creativity
  • Case Based Reasoning
  • Ontology
  • Intelligent Systems