Evaluation of Automatic Generation of Basic Stories

Abstract This paper presents an application that automatically generates basic stories: short texts that only narrate the main events of the plot. The system operates with a representation in Description Logics, combining stored fabulas with the narrative knowledge implemented in a domain-specific ontology. The domain of application is the traditional folk tale, using the well-known morphology of Vladimir Propp as narratological background. In order to evaluate the results, human judges blindly compared one of the generated basic stories to two alternatives: one rendered directly from a stored fabula of the knowledge base and another randomly generated. As a conclusion, possibilities of measuring the utility of the system in terms of quality and originality of the generated artifact are discussed. Keywords Story Generation, Computational Creativity, Case Based Reasoning, Ontology, Intelligent Systems.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: NGC
• Authors: Federico Peinado, Pablo Gervás
• Keywords: Basic Stories, Communications, Generated Basic Stories, NGC 2006, Traditional Folk Tale