Story understanding in Genesis : exploring automatic plot construction through commonsense reasoning
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2011.
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| author | Low, Harold William Capen, IV |
| author2 | Patrick Winston. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/664402019-04-10T18:00:36Z Story understanding in Genesis : exploring automatic plot construction through commonsense reasoning Low, Harold William Capen, IV Patrick Winston. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2011. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 72). Whether through anecdotes, folklore, or formal history, humans learn the lessons and expectations of life from stories. If we are to build intelligent programs that learn as humans do, such programs must understand stories as well. Casting narrative text in an information-rich representation affords Al research platforms, such as the Genesis system, the capacity to understand the events of stories individually. To understand a story, however, a program must understand not just events, but also how events cause and motivate one another. In order to understand the relationships between these events, stories must be saturated with implicit details, connecting given events into coherent plot arcs. In my research, my first step was to analyze a range of story summaries in detail. Using nearly 50 rules, applicable to brief summaries of stories taken from international politics, group dynamics, and basic human emotion, I demonstrate how a rendition of Frank Herbert's Dune can be automatically understood so as to produce an interconnected story network of over one hundred events. My second step was to explore the nuances of rule construction, finding which rules are needed to create story networks reflective of proper implicit understanding and how we, as architects, must shape those rules to be understood. In particular, I develop a method that constructs new rules using the rules already embedded in stories, a representation of higher-order thinking that enables us to speak of our ideas as objects. by Harold William Capen Low, IV. M.Eng. 2011-10-17T21:26:16Z 2011-10-17T21:26:16Z 2011 2011 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66440 755631697 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 72 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Low, Harold William Capen, IV Story understanding in Genesis : exploring automatic plot construction through commonsense reasoning |
| title | Story understanding in Genesis : exploring automatic plot construction through commonsense reasoning |
| title_full | Story understanding in Genesis : exploring automatic plot construction through commonsense reasoning |
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| topic | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. |
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