Hugo Liu & Push Singh (2002). Makebelieve: using commonsense to generate stories. Proceedings of the 18th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2002), 957–958, AAAI Press.
Liu, H., & Singh, P. (2002). Makebelieve: using commonsense to generate stories. In Proceedings of the 18th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2002) (pp. 957–958). AAAI Press.
@inproceedings{liu2002makebelieve,
author = {Hugo Liu and Push Singh},
title = {Makebelieve: using commonsense to generate stories},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2002)},
pages = {957--958},
publisher = {AAAI Press},
url = {https://starheartsong.com/papers/pdf/AAAI2002-MakeBelieve.pdf},
year = {2002}
}MAKEBELIEVE asks whether fragments of everyday causal knowledge can sustain an interactive story. From 9,000 cause-and-effect statements selected out of Open Mind Common Sense, it builds crude event frames and links one event's effect to another's cause using WordNet and verb classes. A user supplies the opening sentence; the system extends a causal chain, rejects cycles and contradictions, and invites another line when inference stalls. Generated stories ran five to twenty lines. In a preliminary study, eighteen readers gave five-line stories an average combined score of 10 out of 15 for creativity, quality, and coherence. There was no control condition, narrative structure remained mostly local, and ambiguous bindings made stories with several characters unreliable.