Shall I Compare Thee to Another Story?—An Empirical Study of Analogy-Based Story Generation

Author

Jichen Zhu ; Ontanon, Santiago

Author_Institution

Antoinette Westphal Coll. of Media Arts & Design, Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

Volume

6

Issue

2

fYear

2014

fDate

Jun-14

Firstpage

216

Lastpage

227

Abstract

Despite their use in traditional storytelling, analogy-based narrative devices have not been sufficiently explored in computational narrative. In this paper, we present our analogy-based story generation (ASG) approach in the Riu system, focusing on analogical retrieval and projection. We report on an empirical user evaluation about Riu´s capability to retrieve and generate short noninteractive stories using the story analogies through mapping (SAM) algorithm. This work provides the foundation for exploration of ASG in more complex and interactive computational narrative works.

Keywords

artificial intelligence; humanities; ASG approach; Riu system; SAM algorithm; analogical projection; analogical retrieval; analogy-based narrative devices; analogy-based story generation approach; interactive computational narrative works; noninteractive stories; story analogies through mapping algorithm; storytelling; user evaluation; Computational modeling; Dynamics; Engines; Focusing; Force; Semantics; Tides; Computational analogy; empirical evaluation; force dynamics (FD); story generation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-068X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCIAIG.2013.2275165

Filename

6571208