Reading Group on Computational Narrative – Fall 2016-17
Week 2
A survey on story generation techniques for authoring computational narratives
- http://nil.cs.uno.edu/publications/papers/kybartas2016survey.pdf
- Plot and space generation mapped from manual to automatic
- Comes to the conclusion that automatic space generation is an unexplored field
Week 3
Requiem for a theory: the ‘story grammar’ story
- Vladimir Propp, Lakoff, etc
- Story grammars are meant to be used as tools for analysis, or tools for creation?
- “Debunked” by Black and Wilensky
- At the time of writing, story grammars had fallen out of the academic eye
Three computer-based models of storytelling: BRUTUS, MINSTREL and MEXICA
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950705103000480?np=y
- BRUTUS
- Minstrel
- Mexica
Week 4
Interactive Narrative:An Intelligent Systems Approach
- http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/aimag.pdf
- The cube of authorial intent, virtual characters, and player modeling
Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film (Seymour Chatman)
Week 6
Building End-To-End Dialogue Systems Using Generative Hierarchical Neural Network Models
A Computational Model of Perceived Agency in Video Games
Week 7
A Survey and Qualitative Analysis of Recent Advances in Drama Management
Versu—A Simulationist Storytelling System
Week 8
Interactive Fiction System for Interactive Narrating
- http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1650000/1642019/p55-montfort.pdf?ip=73.81.97.201&id=1642019&acc=OPEN&key=4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E6D218144511F3437&CFID=857932757&CFTOKEN=45492434&__acm__=1478143968_a77dd47d8fd7006397497d826abd0723
- Generate discourse for interactive fiction and make it more interesting by changing up the order and doing other similar things
All the World’s a Stage: Learning Character Models from Film
- http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AIIDE/AIIDE11/paper/viewFile/4065/4411&embedded=true
- Using machine learning to get characterization from film scripts and apply it to AIs
- Emphasizes stylistic choices from directors, time periods, genres, gender, etc