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Automatic story generation systems must consider both consistency and coherency issues in the stories that they produce. This paper discusses the different agent models adapted to enhance the planning process of Picture Books 2 to produce stories that contain a logical flow of events. Along with the agent models, the ontology structure utilized as the source of storytelling knowledge must be efficiently designed to support the tasks of the agents. Preliminary results show that the interaction among the agents enabled the story planner to perform better than the earlier version of Picture Books 2 in generating logical stories.
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Ang, K., Ong, E. (2012). Planning Children’s Stories Using Agent Models. In: Richards, D., Kang, B.H. (eds) Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems. PKAW 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7457. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32541-0_17
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