METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC COMPUTATION CREATIVITY AND SPECIFICALLY FOR STORY GENERATION

• US 20080235576A1
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ferrucci, David Angelo, Bringsjord, Selmer Conrad
• Application Number:
  US11/930,338
• Publication Number:
  US 20080235576A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/256
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/00 Computing arrangements using knowledge-based models

Abstract

A computer-implemented method (and system) of automatically generating a story, includes selecting a theme of the story, examining elements of the theme and instantiating the theme, and using the theme to select and control other aspects of the story.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of automatically generating a story, comprising:

selecting a theme of said story;

examining elements of said theme and instantiating said theme;

using said theme to select and control other aspects of the story generation, including a plot of said story which employs knowledge-generated characteristics, relationships, and events.

2. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, further comprising inputting said elements of said theme into a stage, said stage being a collection of elements of said story and their interrelationships.

3. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, further comprising inputting said elements into a simulation engine to play out a series of events over time, thereby to generate a plot, said plot including characters, their characteristics, and their respective interactions, and a history of events and their temporal relationships, said simulation engine including a predetermined randomness such that random elements from said databases are selected.

4. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, further comprising inputting said elements into a simulation engine to play out a series of events over time.

5. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, further comprising generating a plot.

6. The computer-implemented method according to claim 5, wherein said plot comprises characters, their characteristics, and their respective interactions, and a history of events and their temporal relationships.

7. The computer-implemented method according to claim 5, wherein said simulation engine comprises a predetermined randomness such that random elements from said databases are selected.

8. The computer-implemented method according to claim 5, wherein said plot comprises at least one of characters, their characteristics, and their respective interactions, and a history of events and their temporal relationships.

9. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

developing a scenario, including a plurality of activities, based on said plot generated, such that details of said activities are developed and bridged.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein said scenarios are in a formal, logic based language independent of a spoken language, said method further comprising:

inputting said scenarios into a natural language generator such that said scenarios are converted from said logic-based language to a natural language, said natural language being a spoken language understandable by a human reader, said conversion from said logic-based language to said natural language influencing at least one of story grammars, literary constraints, words, phrases, and sentence structure used in said scenario.

11. A signal-bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform a method of story generation, said method comprising:

selecting a theme of said story;

examining elements of said theme and instantiating said theme;

using said theme to select and control other aspects of the story generation, including a plot of said story which employs knowledge-generated characteristics, relationships, and events.

12. A computer-implemented method of automatically generating a story, comprising:

inputting elements of a story into a simulation engine to play out a series of events over time, thereby to generate a plot, said plot including at least one of characters, their characteristics, and their respective interactions, and a history of events and their temporal relationships.