Suspenser: A Story Generation System for Suspense

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation (CC-NLG 2018)

“…Much research on computational models of narrative has often centred on use of detailed representations for character goals and plans -see for example Cavazza and Charles (2005). Also, approaches to suspense modelling often interlock with the concept of a story protagonist under some kind of threat -see for example, the suspense modelling in the SUSPENSER system Cheong and Young (2015) which attempts to maximise suspense by varying the number of potential actions of a central protagonist which could allow him or her to escape a threat.…”

A model of suspense for narrative generation

“…We can contrast this disambiguation process with Cheong and Young (2015)'s SUSPENSER system, where suspense varies inversely with the number of possible actions of a central protagonist. Similarly, because the decrease in conflicted events boosts the thread's Confidence level, in our model, the suspenseful effect of a thread will go up as ambiguity is reduced.…”

“…Ideally, future research should explore less intrusive methods that use direct physiological measurements of the participants. So far, the search for measurement methods that correspond with perceived suspense has been unsuccessful (Cheong and Young, 2015).…”

“…Cheong and Young (2015) 's SUSPENSER and O'Neill and Riedl (2014)'s DRAMATIS propose cognitively motivated heuristics for suspense using the planning paradigm. Characters have goals and corresponding plans, and suspense levels are calculated as a function of these.…”

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation

“…For example, the suspense modelling in the SUSPENSER system Cheong and Young (2015) -which aims to enable choices that can maximise suspense in narrative generation -is entirely based on Gerrig and Bernardo (1994)'s definition, according which suspense varies inversely with the number of potential actions of the central protagonist which could allow him or her to escape a threat. Similarly, Zillman's definition (Zillmann, 1996) links suspense to the reader's fearful apprehension of a story event that threatens a liked protagonist.…”