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Intertwined Storylines with Anchor Points

Authors : Mei Si, Zev Battad, Craig Carlson

Published in: Interactive Storytelling

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Narrative and dialogue are effective ways for engaging people and helping people organize and memorize information. In this work, we present an automated narration system that takes structured information from the Internet and tailors the presentation to a user using storytelling techniques. It is aimed at presenting the information as an interesting and meaningful story by taking into consideration a combination of factors ranging from topic consistency and novelty to user interests. In particular, the designer of the agent can specify a number of anchor points for the presentation, and the agent will automatically decide its strategy for covering these anchor points and emphasizing them in its presentation using multiple intertwining storylines and contrasts.

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Title: Intertwined Storylines with Anchor Points
Authors: Mei Si
Zev Battad
Craig Carlson
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Interactive Storytelling
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-48278-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-48279-8

Copyright Year: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48279-8_22

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