Narrative Prose Generation

Abstract

Narrative generation has historically suffered from poor writing quality, stemming from a narrow focus on story grammars and plot design. Moreover, to-date natural language generation systems have not been capable of faithfully reproducing either the variety or complexity of naturally occurring narratives. In this article we first propose a model of narrative derived from work in narratology and grounded in observed linguistic phenomena. Next we describe the Author architecture for narrative generation and an end-to-end implementation of the Author model in the StoryBook narrative prose generation system. Finally, we present a formal evaluation of the narratives that StoryBook produces.

Cite

Text

Callaway and Lester. "Narrative Prose Generation." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2001. doi:10.1016/S0004-3702(02)00230-8

Markdown

[Callaway and Lester. "Narrative Prose Generation." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2001.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2001/callaway2001ijcai-narrative/) doi:10.1016/S0004-3702(02)00230-8

BibTeX

@inproceedings{callaway2001ijcai-narrative,
  title     = {{Narrative Prose Generation}},
  author    = {Callaway, Charles B. and Lester, James C.},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2001},
  pages     = {1241-1250},
  doi       = {10.1016/S0004-3702(02)00230-8},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2001/callaway2001ijcai-narrative/}
}