Narrative Intelligence Without (Domain) Boundaries

Narrative Intelligence (NI) can help computational systems interact with users, such as through story generation, interactive narratives, and believable virtual characters. However, existing NI techniques generally require manually coded domain knowledge, restricting their scalability. An approach that intelligently, automatically and economically acquires script-like knowledge in any domain with strategic crowdsourcing will ease this bottleneck and broaden the application territory of narrative intelligence. This doctoral consortium paper defines the research problem, describes its significance, proposes a feasible research plan towards a Ph.D. dissertation, and reports on its current progress.

[1]  Nathanael Chambers,et al.  Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Event Chains , 2008, ACL.

[2]  Boyang Li,et al.  An Offline Planning Approach to Game Plotline Adaptation , 2010, AIIDE.

[3]  Jeff Orkin,et al.  Automatic learning and generation of social behavior from collective human gameplay , 2009, AAMAS.

[4]  J. Bruner.  The Narrative Construction of Reality , 1991, Critical Inquiry.

[5]  Reid Swanson,et al.  Say Anything: A Massively Collaborative Open Domain Story Writing Companion , 2008, ICIDS.

[6]  Mirella Lapata,et al.  Plot Induction and Evolutionary Search for Story Generation , 2010, ACL.

[7]  Joseph Bates,et al.  Guiding interactive drama , 1997 .

[8]  Yumiko Iwata.  Creating suspense and surprise in short literary fiction: a stylistic and narratological approach , 2009 .

[9]  Boyang Li,et al.  Toward Autonomous Crowd-Powered Creation of Interactive Narratives , 2012, INT@AIIDE.

[10]  Marc Cavazza,et al.  Controlling Narrative Generation with Planning Trajectories: The Role of Constraints , 2009, ICIDS.

[11]  Robert Michael Young,et al.  Narrative Planning: Balancing Plot and Character , 2010, J. Artif. Intell. Res..

[12]  Boyang Li,et al.  Learning Sociocultural Knowledge via Crowdsourced Examples , 2012, HCOMP@AAAI.

[13]  M. Mateas,et al.  What is Narrative Intelligence ? , 1998 .

[14]  David S. Miall.  Experiencing narrative worlds: On the psychological activities of reading , 2000 .

[15]  Raquel Hervás,et al.  Story plot generation based on CBR , 2004, Knowl. Based Syst..

[16]  Mark O. Riedl,et al.  Automatically Learning to Tell Stories about Social Situations from the Crowd , 2012 .

[17]  Phoebe Sengers,et al.  Narrative intelligence : papers from the 1999 AAAI Fall Symposium, November 5-7, North Falmouth, Massachusetts , 1999 .

[18]  James R. Meehan,et al.  The Metanovel: Writing Stories by Computer , 1976, Outstanding Dissertations in the Computer Sciences.