A Conceptual Blending Approach to the Generation of Cognitive Scripts for Interactive Narrative

This paper presents a computational approach to the generation of cognitive scripts employed in freeform activities such as pretend play. Pretend play activities involve a high degree of improvisational narrative construction using cognitive scripts acquired from everyday experience, cultural experiences, and previous play experiences. Our computational model of cognitive script generation, based upon conceptual integration theory, applies operations to familiar scripts to generate new blended scripts.

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