New Generation Computing, 24(2006)289-302
Ohmsha, Ltd. and Springer
Received 5 October 2005
Revised manuscript received 3 February 2006
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.