The automatic generation of narratives

Mariët Theune; Nanda Slabbers; Feikje Hielkema

The automatic generation of narratives

Mariët Theune, Nanda Slabbers, Feikje Hielkema

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We present the Narrator, a Natural Language Generation component used in a digital storytelling system. The system takes as input a formal representation of a story plot, in the form of a causal network relating the actions of the characters to their motives and their consequences. Based on this input, the Narrator generates a narrative in Dutch, by carrying out tasks such as constructing a Document Plan, performing aggregation and ellipsis and the generation of appropriate referring expressions. We describe how these tasks are performed and illustrate the process with examples, showing how this results in the generation of coherent and well-formed narrative texts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands
Subtitle of host publication	selected papers from the seventeenth CLIN meeting
Editors	Peter Dirix, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste, Frank van Eynde
Place of Publication	Utrecht
Publisher	LOT
Pages	131-146
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	978-90-78328-41-4
Publication status	Published - Dec 2007
Event	17th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, CLIN 2006 - University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Duration: 12 Jan 2007 → 12 Jan 2007 Conference number: 17

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Name	LOT Occasional Series
Publisher	LOT
Number	7

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Conference	17th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, CLIN 2006
Abbreviated title	CLIN
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Leuven
Period	12/01/07 → 12/01/07
Other	(Held on January 12th, 2007)

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Theune, M, Slabbers, N & Hielkema, F 2007, The automatic generation of narratives. in P Dirix, I Schuurman, V Vandeghinste & F van Eynde (eds), Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands: selected papers from the seventeenth CLIN meeting. LOT Occasional Series, no. 7, LOT, Utrecht, pp. 131-146, 17th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, CLIN 2006, Leuven, Belgium, 12/01/07.

The automatic generation of narratives. / Theune, Mariët; Slabbers, Nanda; Hielkema, Feikje.
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands: selected papers from the seventeenth CLIN meeting. ed. / Peter Dirix; Ineke Schuurman; Vincent Vandeghinste; Frank van Eynde. Utrecht: LOT, 2007. p. 131-146 (LOT Occasional Series; No. 7).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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