Integrated Narrative Generation System Research Articles

Adjective and Adjective Verb Conceptual Dictionaries in an Integrated Narrative Generation System

Adjective and Adjective Verb Conceptual Dictionaries in an Integrated Narrative Generation System

A Framework for Haiku Generation from a Narrative

The primary goal of the authors’ research related to the generation of narratives and haikus is to complete a mutual transformation mechanism between a narrative and a haiku. In this work, the authors propose a framework for transforming a narrative into haiku. The paper shows a basic method of generating haiku from a fragmented narrative by selecting, arranging, and modifying the elements in the narrative. The authors have been developing an Integrated Narrative Generation System (INGS) that automatically generates narratives. The authors aim to introduce the developed haiku-relating mechanism into the INGS in the future.

統合物語生成システムと「Creative Genome」を利用した広告プロット生成手法の一案

統合物語生成システムと「Creative Genome」を利用した広告プロット生成手法の一案

Analyzing Multiple Narrative Structures of Kabuki based on the Frameworks of Narrative Generation Systems

Although kabuki is a genre of, so to speak, traditional performing arts, it also has many of the characteristics of a contemporary genre, including such various elements as narrative, drama, dance, and music. This analysis and study will contribute to the design and development of studies on digital-narrative generation. The author has previously surveyed and analyzed kabuki’s narrative structures from the viewpoint of a multiple narrative structure model, particularly the generation or production processes involved in its creation and its reception and consumption processes. Kabuki’s multiple-narrative-structure model means that the entire structure of kabuki is constructed through multiple usages of related information. For example, in kabuki the element of the “person” is divided into three: a “character” within a narrative work, an actor with a history of performances and who uses a stage name, and a real human with a true name. This multiplicity provides the person with multiple and deep characteristics. In this paper, based on these previous studies, the author discusses a method that bridges this kabuki analysis with system design and involves the use of two narrative generation systems: an Integrated Narrative Generation System (INGS) and a Geino Information System (GIS).

A Way for using the Verb Conceptual Dictionary in an Integrated Narrative Generation System: the Use of Co-occurrence Information on Verb Concepts

A Way for using the Verb Conceptual Dictionary in an Integrated Narrative Generation System: the Use of Co-occurrence Information on Verb Concepts

A Design Plan of a Game System including an Automatic Narrative Generation Mechanism: The Entire Structure and the World Settings

In this paper, we propose a narrative generation system based on the scenario generation method in tabletop roleplaying games (TRPGs). This system uses an integrated narrative generation system (INGS) that synthesizes various narrative generation mechanisms. The TRPG is an analog game in which one or more players (PLs) play the role of characters within the framework of the narrative prepared by the game master (GM). A PL promotes the development of scenes, which leads to the completion of the narrative. In particular, we concentrate on the “world setting” that consists of the rules or constricts for a narrative and also the components defined by the rules and the stage setting of the narrative. In an ordinary scenario, a GM sets a basic world setting for the narrative generation through the interaction between the PLs. We consider preliminarily prepared scripts corresponding to various world settings in addition to the detailed mechanism to use it.

Automatic Generation, Creativity, and Production of Narrative Content

In accordance with the concept of this organized session, in this presentation, we will consider the study of automatic narrative or story generation as a research field of artificial intelligence (AI) at the levels of generation, creation, and production. Firstly, we study the technologies of narrative or story generation systems based mainly on artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Next, the artistic and aesthetic problems of narrative creation are considered in terms of their relationships with technologies and systems of narrative generation. Further, issues of organizational or social narrative production are presented. The survey and discussion will be conducted based on topics in this session relating to game and advertising systems and our integrated narrative generation system.

A Way for Using the Verb Conceptual Dictionary in an Integrated Narrative Generation System: the Use of Co-occurrence Information on Verb Concepts

A Way for Using the Verb Conceptual Dictionary in an Integrated Narrative Generation System: the Use of Co-occurrence Information on Verb Concepts

Experimental Development Of A Focalization Mechanism In An Integrated Narrative Generation System

Abstract “Focalization” is a narrative discourse technique that produces different narrative structures based on choosing unique perspectives from which to present a story. This study designs a focalization mechanism and presents an experimental implementation. The proposed system functions as part of our integrated narrative generation system (INGS). In addition, the approach computationally extends the conceptual research of focalization by Genette to techniques for narrative generation. We define focalization as a procedure to transform a story structure into discourse structures through the following two steps: 1) restricting the scope of story information perceived from a chosen perspective, and 2) generating a discourse structure based on perceived story information. In particular, we define two types of rules for restricting the perception scope based on: a) objective perceptible possibility of constituent elements in a story and b) situations or states in which constituent elements in a story are positioned. Based on the experimentally implemented system, we present generated examples from a story using different focalization types. Through analysis, we show that the basic function of the focalization mechanism was achieved by the aforementioned rules.

Building Conceptual Dictionaries for an Integrated Narrative Generation System

Abstra ct Integrated Narrative Generation System (INGS) is a framework for integrating our previous researches on narrative generation. INGS integrates various narrative generation modules into an organic architecture. This paper presents a verb conceptual dictionary and a noun conceptual dictionary to be used in INGS. Each of the dictionaries has a conceptual hierarchy with single inheritance by is-a relations. A terminal concept in the verb conceptual dictionary describes one or more case frame(s), the constraints of the main elements and a sentence pattern. The basic description of each terminal concept in the noun conceptual dictionary associates the concept to the other noun concept. The purpose of the study is not developing general conceptual dictionaries, but building them as a mechanism in narrative generation, especially in INGS. Actually, we have combined the two developed conceptual dictionaries with INGS. In this paper, we will present the basic mechanisms based on the cooperation of two types of conceptual dictionary through an implemented narrative generation system, INGS.

Selecting Words and Notation Using Literary Data in the Integrated Narrative Generation System

This paper presents a way for selecting noun concepts based on the analysis of appearance frequency of noun words in the data of modern Japanese novels (“Aozora Bunko”). The proposed method is incorporated into some mechanisms in our integrated narrative generation system (INGS). We also show an overview of INGS, in particular the mechanism relating the proposed method in this paper. Additionally, we introduce a preliminary experiment to confirm and discuss the effectiveness.

Integrating the Event Generation Mechanism in the Propp-based Story Generation Mechanism into the Integrated Narrative Generation System

In the Propp-based story generation mechanisms and the integrated narrative generation system which we have been developing, the former functions is a module in the latter. These systems have used respective event generation mechanisms to generated events which are the most important units in a narrative structural representation. A common event generation mechanism needs to be used in these two systems towards the complete blending. This paper will present the first tentative attempt as a prototype to be revised in the future.

Circulative Narrative Generation Based on the Mutual Transformation between Narrative Conceptual Structures and Music in the Integrated Narrative Generation System

We have proposed a new framework of narrative generation which generates narratives through the mutual transformation according to various pathways between narrative (conceptual representation) and music. This paper will continuously incorporate this framework into the integrated narrative generation system which is a comprehensive architecture for our narrative generation study and develop an experimental system combined with the integrated system. This new framework aims to apply various musical methods for composition and variation to narrative generation as a way to connect different types of media. An experiment of the mutual generation between music and narrative will show various transformation pathways or routes between music and narrative.