Abstract
Automatic construction of story plots has always been a longed-for utopian dream in the entertainment industry, especially in the more commercial genres that are fuelled by a large number of story plots with only a medium threshold on plot quality, such as TV series or video games. We propose a Knowledge Intensive CBR (KI-CBR) approach to the problem of generating story plots from a case base of existing stories analyzed in terms of Propp functions. A CBR process is defined to generate plots from a user query specifying an initial setting for the story, using an ontology to measure the semantical distance between words and structures taking part in the texts.
Supported by the Spanish Committee of Science & Technology (TIC2002-01961).
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Díaz-Agudo, B., Gervás, P., Peinado, F. (2004). A Case Based Reasoning Approach to Story Plot Generation. In: Funk, P., González Calero, P.A. (eds) Advances in Case-Based Reasoning. ECCBR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3155. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28631-8_12
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