Designing a Virtual Environment for Story Generation (bibtex)
by J.R.R. Uijlings
Abstract:
In this document I present a model of a virtual world which consists of two components: A specification of actions and an object ontology which enables the execution of these actions. This model (i) is completely formalised in logic, facilitating reasoning in general, (ii) gives elegant solutions to problems commonly encountered in dealing with time and action, (iii) has a near complete coverage of narratively interesting actions, providing a lot of narrative power, (iv) is simple in terms of modelling complexity, satisfying computational reasoning demands, (v) can easily be extended with various reusable story settings, reducing the work of constructing virtual worlds, and (vi) allows the inclusion of narrative information usable in natural language generation. This model is used to create a prototype simulation of a virtual environment.
Reference:
J.R.R. Uijlings, "Designing a Virtual Environment for Story Generation", Master's thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2006.
Bibtex Entry:
@MASTERSTHESIS{Uijlings06,
  author = {J.R.R. Uijlings},
  title = {Designing a Virtual Environment for Story Generation},
  school = {University of Amsterdam},
  year = {2006},
  abstract = {In this document I present a model of a virtual world which consists
	of
	
	two components: A specification of actions and an object ontology
	which
	
	enables the execution of these actions. This model (i) is completely
	formalised
	
	in logic, facilitating reasoning in general, (ii) gives elegant solutions
	
	to problems commonly encountered in dealing with time and action,
	(iii) has
	
	a near complete coverage of narratively interesting actions, providing
	a lot of
	
	narrative power, (iv) is simple in terms of modelling complexity,
	satisfying
	
	computational reasoning demands, (v) can easily be extended with various
	
	reusable story settings, reducing the work of constructing virtual
	worlds, and
	
	(vi) allows the inclusion of narrative information usable in natural
	language
	
	generation.
	
	This model is used to create a prototype simulation of a virtual environment.},
  owner = {Jasper},
  timestamp = {2007.02.22},
  url = {http://www.huppelen.nl/publications/JasperUijlingsMasterThesis.pdf}
}
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