There is a peculiar method in the area of procedural narrative called emergent narrative:
instead of automatically inventing stories or deploying authored narrative content, a system …

The semi-formal analysis of Russian folk tales carried out by Vladimir Propp has often been
used as theoretical background for the automated generation of stories. Its rigour and its …

This paper attempts to establish criteria to analyse and evaluate computer models of
creativity in writing. The paper provides a brief review of the antecedents of automatic story …

Narrative is ubiquitous. According to some models, this is due to the hypothesis that
narrative is not only a successful way of communication, but a specific way of structuring …

ABSTRACT In Interactive Storytelling (IS) the prevailing approach for the automatic
generation of plausible narratives that meet global author goals is intentional planning …

Man achieved flight by studying how birds fly, and yet the solution that engineers came up
with (jet planes) is very different from the one birds apply. In this paper I review a number of …

The format preferred by people to receive reports on events that have been observed is a
story. Sometimes real life events inspire a story, but either lack the structure or the clear …

Existing storyline visualization techniques represent narratives as a node-link graph where a
sequence of links shows the evolution of causal and temporal relationships between …

One of the aspects that is used to keep the reader's interest in a story is the network of
relationships among the characters that take part in that story. We can model the relationship …

Scott Turner's Minstrel is considered a landmark story-generation system, cited as an
important system in our field's history for the quality of its output. Other influential systems …