Automated Extension of Narrative Planning Domains with Antonymic Operators

Julie Porteous, Alan Lindsay, Jonathon Read, Mark Truran, Marc Cavazza

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Abstract

AI Planning has been widely used for narrative generation and the control of virtual actors in interactive storytelling. Planning models for such dynamic environments must include alternative actions which enable deviation away from a baseline storyline in order to generate multiple story variants and to be able to respond to changes that might be made to the story world. However, the actual creation of these domain models has been a largely empirical process with a lack of principled approaches to the definition of alternative actions. Our work has addressed this problem and in the paper we present a novel automated method for the generation of interactive narrative domain models from existing non-interactive versions. Central to this is the use of actions that are contrary to those forming the baseline plot within a principled mechanism for their semi-automatic production. It is important that such newly created domain content should still be human-readable and to this end labels for new actions and predicates are generated automatically using antonyms selected from a range of on-line lexical resources. Our approach is fully implemented in a prototype system and its potential demonstrated via both formal experimental evaluation and user evaluation of the generated action labels.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAAMAS '15
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages1547-1555
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781450334136
Publication statusPublished - 4 May 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Istanbul, Turkey
Duration: 4 May 20158 May 2015
Conference number: 14

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Abbreviated titleAAMAS 2015
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIstanbul
Period4/05/158/05/15

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