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 …

Planning-based narrative generation is effective at producing stories with a logically-sound
flow of events, but it can be limiting due to the rigidity of its constraints and the high burden …

A growing number of algorithms for story planning include the ability to create stories with
failed actions--in particular failed actions that occur because of the mistaken beliefs of the …

Here we present a pilot study on the Clarifying Questions Document Generator (CQDG), an
AI document-generation application designed to ask follow-up questions to the user after …

The typical goal of an experience manager in an interactive narrative is to create a sense of
shared authorship that lends the player freedom to personalize the experience while still …

Narrative planning techniques have shown great potential in their ability to automatically
generate plots that meet human authorial goals for their fictional world and characters …

Narrative is context where intention plays a critical role; individual characters collaborate
and conflict while in pursuit of their intentions. We often experience suspense when a …