MAKEBELIEVE is a
story generation agent that uses
Open
Mind knowledge to interactively compose short fictional texts
with a user. While a user must start a story, MAKEBELIEVE will
attempt to continue that story by freely imagining possible
sequences of events that might happen to the character the user has
chosen. The agent uses "commonsense" about causality and how the
world works, mined from the
Open
Mind Common Sense corpus, and combines this with very simple
lingustic techniques for story generation to produce pithy but
interesting stories. MAKEBELIEVE also uses commonsense to evaluate
and critique a story it has written to catch logically inconsistent,
incoherent events and actions.
Some next steps we are working on include expanding stories for
multiple characters, and reworking the story generator as an
educational tool for kids. We hope to incorporate social commosense
about interactions between characters to imagine possible
interaction scenarios. By making MakeBelieve more of a game, we
might be able to use this as an educational opportunity to teach
younger kids about consequences and story writing.
