The Story So Far on Narrative Planning

Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Arnav Jhala, Julie Porteous, R. Michael Young

Keywords: plot, discourse, narration, storytelling, narrative, human-centered AI, applications, survey

TL;DR: We review the application area of narrative planning, offer a survey of the topic that distills general themes while remaining grounded in technical language, and discuss open challenges relevant to the broader AI community.

Abstract: Narrative planning is the use of automated planning to construct, communicate, and understand stories, a form of information to which human cognition and enaction is pre-disposed. We review the narrative planning problem in a manner suitable as an introduction to the area, survey different plan-based methodologies and affordances for reasoning about narrative, and discuss open challenges relevant to the broader AI community.

Primary Keywords: Applications

Category: Long

Student: No

Submission Number: 336