Re: Propp generation reference

[Michael Mateas <michaelm+@cs.cmu.edu>]

Two papers which provide brief overviews of work in story generation can be 
found at:
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/michaelm/www/nidocs/Lang.pdf and
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/michaelm/www/nidocs/Bailey.pdf.

Lang's paper describes a contemporary grammar-based story generator called 
Joseph; the introduction surveys grammar and author-modelling approaches to 
story generation.
Bailey's paper is a thought-piece about a reader-response approach to story 
generation; the introduction surveys grammar, author-modeling and 
world-modeling approaches to story generation.

While Propp most clearly influenced the story grammar tradition, he is also 
referenced by author-modeling work such as Turner's MINSTREL and in 
interactive drama (e.g. Weyhrauch - a brief description of his system can 
be found in 
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/oz/web/papers/CMU-CS-97-156.html).

-Michael


At 01:47 AM 06/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>Hi everyone -- I had a great time at the Crawford ranch. For those of your
>who were interested in the reference to MESS & Propp, here it is:
>
>http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/langpro/NLG-table/details/NLG-ENTRY-18.htm
>
>It is my understanding that Propp has been a popular source for story
>generation systems (so a friend told me), though how common I don't know.
>The above reference is one verifiable sighting. =)
>
>(http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/langpro/NLG-table/NLG-table-date-sort.html 
>
>is a long long list of natural language generation systems, fyi, which may
>be of interest to some).
>
>Another interesting story generation system that didn't come up over the
>weekend is Leibowitz's Universe system, which was used (if I remember
>correctly) to write soap opera plots.
>
>A nice text on interactive storyworlds that is more design than
>architecture oriented, I'd suggest picking up a copy of Janet Murray's
>book _Hamlet on the Holodeck_.