Abstract:
Over the past forty years, significant research has been done on story/narrative generation, in which the computer is the author. While it is impossible to quantify a human writer’s inspiration, we can consider a common exercise that authors perform; namely ‘writing prompts’. A writing prompt is just a topic or idea around which to start writing. The prompt can simply be a few words, which becomes the basis for a story. Our automatic story generation system, will select a few random words as parameters (i.e. ‘inspiration’) for driving the ‘creative writing’ process. Here we present the results generated by the initial phase of system development and testing of the word selection components.
