Narrative Intelligence Without (Domain) Boundaries

Abstract

Narrative Intelligence (NI) can help computational systems interact with users, such as through story generation, interactive narratives, and believable virtual characters. However, existing NI techniques generally require manually coded domain knowledge, restricting their scalability. An approach that intelligently, automatically and economically acquires script-like knowledge in any domain with strategic crowdsourcing will ease this bottleneck and broaden the application territory of narrative intelligence. This doctoral consortium paper defines the research problem, describes its significance, proposes a feasible research plan towards a Ph.D. dissertation, and reports on its current progress.