Narrative Forest: An automatic narrative generation system with a visual narrative operation mechanism

Abstract

This paper proposes NF (Narrative Forest) which is an application system of our integrated narrative generation system. NF consists of narrative generation part and user interface part. The former automatically generates narrative conceptual representation as a tree structure form. And the latter is a kind of narrative user interface, and displays the glowing process of a narrative tree structure and the collection of trees by the correspondence of the visual image of a tree and forest. The user can see narrative generation process through the metaphorical image. At the same time, the user can operates the narrative generating processing via the interface window. We conducted a questionnaire survey and a demonstration at an exhibition. Based on the results, we discuss a variety of findings and future issues on the interestingness of the interface, the quality of narrative texts, and so on. Keywords-Narrative Forest (NF); integrated narrative generation system; automatic music composition; narrative user interface I.INTRODUCTION One of main purposes of our narrative generation system project [1, 2, 3] is to develop an integrated narrative generation system. The detailed description of the integrated system is shown in [3]. The system architecture is based on an interdisciplinary approach between information area such as AI and literary area such as narratology, in which different types of modules are organically combined into one system. Specifically, the system consists of main three components: narrative knowledge including conceptual dictionaries, narrative techniques for concrete narrative structures and expressions, and a control mechanism for operating the use of narrative techniques. As we discuss later, the proposed system in this paper is an application of the integrated narrative generation system.

Statistical language modelling for automatic story generation

“…In the literature, other NLG perspectives have been tried, for instance, the one proposed in [2]. It uses tree structures to organise both the story and its discourse, where the basic elements of such trees are events, concepts and relations derived from a dictionary of nouns and verbs.…”

“…A collection of 779 English children stories was used as corpora, including the Lobo and Matos corpus [19] and other stories automatically gathered from Bedtime stories 2 and Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories 3 . Table 1 shows the statistics of the corpora used to obtain the document plans in the macroplanning stage and also used to train the FLM used during the surface realisation.…”