Towards a model-theoretic view of narratives

L Castricato, S Biderman, D Thue… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
In this paper, we propose the beginnings of a formal framework for modeling narrative qua
narrative. Our framework affords the ability to discuss key qualities of stories and their …

Tell me a story like I'm five: story generation via question answering

L Castricato, S Frazier, J Balloch, M Riedl - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2021 - par.nsf.gov
Neural language model-based approaches to automated story generation suffer from two
important limitations. First, language model-based story generators generally do not work …

Automated story generation as question-answering

L Castricato, S Frazier, J Balloch, N Tarakad… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Neural language model-based approaches to automated story generation suffer from two
important limitations. First, language model-based story generators generally do not work …

The Story So Far on Narrative Planning

REC Rivera, A Jhala, J Porteous… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Narrative planning is the use of automated planning to construct, communicate, and
understand stories, a form of information to which human cognition and enaction is pre …

[PDF][PDF] The visual narrative engine: A computational model of the visual narrative parallel architecture

C Martens, RE Cardona-Rivera, N Cohn - … of the 8th Annual Conference on …, 2020 - rogel.io
This paper introduces the first computational model of a proposed set of cognitive structures
and processes involved in interpreting visual narratives (specifically, comics). The study of …

Manipulating narrative salience in interactive stories using Indexter's Pairwise Event Salience Hypothesis

R Farrell, SG Ware, LJ Baker - IEEE Transactions on Games, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The salience of a narrative event is defined as the ease with which an audience member
can recall that past event. This paper describes a series of experiments investigating the use …

A model for automating the abstraction of planning problems in a narrative context

M Fisher, S Ware - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Contemporary automated planning research emphasizes the use of domain knowledge
abstractions like heuristics to improve search efficiency. Transformative automated …

Towards a formal model of narratives

L Castricato, S Biderman, RE Cardona-Rivera… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we propose the beginnings of a formal framework for modeling narrative\textit
{qua} narrative. Our framework affords the ability to discuss key qualities of stories and their …

[PDF][PDF] Desiderata for a computational model of human online narrative sensemaking

RE Cardona-Rivera, RM Young - the Working Notes of the 2019 …, 2019 - qed.cs.utah.edu
Storyetlling presents a compelling context for the development of intelligent systems.
Increasingly, research on intelligent systems has targeted the development of computational …

[PDF][PDF] Discourse-driven narrative generation with bipartite planning

D Winer, RM Young - Proceedings of the 9th International Natural …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
During content planning, a typical discourse generation system receives as input a library of
facts and selects facts to include as the content for utterances. However, storytellers do not …