CC-NLG@INLGPub Date : 2017-09-04DOI: 10.18653/v1/W17-3905
E. Chourdakis, J. Reiss
{"title":"Constructing narrative using a generative model and continuous action policies","authors":"E. Chourdakis, J. Reiss","doi":"10.18653/v1/W17-3905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-3905","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a method for learning how to generate narrative by recombining sentences from a previous collection. Given a corpus of story events categorised into 9 topics, we approximate a deep reinforcement learning agent policy to recombine them in order to satisfy narrative structure. We also propose an evaluation of such a system. The evaluation is based on coherence, interest, and topic, in order to figure how much sense the generated stories make, how interesting they are, and examine whether new narrative topics can emerge.","PeriodicalId":162824,"journal":{"name":"CC-NLG@INLG","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122324872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CC-NLG@INLGPub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.18653/v1/W17-3904
Enrique Manjavacas, Folgert Karsdorp, Ben Burtenshaw, M. Kestemont
{"title":"Synthetic Literature: Writing Science Fiction in a Co-Creative Process","authors":"Enrique Manjavacas, Folgert Karsdorp, Ben Burtenshaw, M. Kestemont","doi":"10.18653/v1/W17-3904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-3904","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a co-creative text generation system applied within a science fiction setting to be used by an established novelist. The project was initiated as part of The Dutch Book Week, and the generated text will be published within a volume of science fiction stories. We explore the ramifications of applying Natural Language Generation within a cocreative process, and examine where the cocreative setting challenges both writer and machine. We employ a character-level language model to generate text based on a large corpus of Dutch novels that exposes a number of tunable parameters to the user. The system is used through a custom graphical user interface, that helps the writer to elicit, modify and incorporate suggestions by the text generation system. Besides a literary work, the output of the present project also includes user-generated meta-data that is expected to contribute to the quantitative evaluation of the text-generation system and the co-creative process involved.","PeriodicalId":162824,"journal":{"name":"CC-NLG@INLG","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115548412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CC-NLG@INLGPub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.18653/v1/W17-3903
Pablo Gervás
{"title":"Template-Free Construction of Rhyming Poems with Thematic Cohesion","authors":"Pablo Gervás","doi":"10.18653/v1/W17-3903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-3903","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162824,"journal":{"name":"CC-NLG@INLG","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127358950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CC-NLG@INLGPub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.18653/v1/W17-3901
A. Astigarraga, J. M. Martínez-Otzeta, I. Rodriguez, B. Sierra, E. Lazkano
{"title":"Poet’s Little Helper: A methodology for computer-based poetry generation. A case study for the Basque language","authors":"A. Astigarraga, J. M. Martínez-Otzeta, I. Rodriguez, B. Sierra, E. Lazkano","doi":"10.18653/v1/W17-3901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-3901","url":null,"abstract":"We present Poet’s Little Helper (PLH), a tool that implements a methodology to generate poetry using minimal language-dependent information. The user only needs to provide a corpus with a set of sentences, a rhyme checker and a syllable-counter. From these building blocks, PLH produces: (1) an exploratory analysis of the suitability of the given corpus for poetry generation. (2) a novel and non-trivial poem grammatically correct under metrical and rhyming constraints. This poem also shows content that is coherent with a topic given by the user. The process of poetry generation is a cycle with three phases: lexical exploratory analysis, semantic exploratory analysis and poem generation. The goal is twofold: on the one hand PLH aims to be a useful open source poemgenerator for many languages with minimal effort; on the other hand, analizes how the particularities of each corpus affect in the creation of poems. The presented PHL tool is offered in a public repository. The results of an experiment with a corpus of Basque texts is shown.","PeriodicalId":162824,"journal":{"name":"CC-NLG@INLG","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126399844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}