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Say Anything: A Massively Collaborative Open Domain Story Writing Companion

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2008)

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Interactive storytelling is an interesting cross-disciplinary area that has importance in research as well as entertainment. In this paper we explore a new area of interactive storytelling that blurs the line between traditional interactive fiction and collaborative writing. We present a system where the user and computer take turns in writing sentences of a fictional narrative. Sentences contributed by the computer are selected from a collection of millions of stories extracted from Internet weblogs. By leveraging the large amounts of personal narrative content available on the web, we show that even with a simple approach our system can produce compelling stories with our users.

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  1. The Institute for Creative Technologies, The University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, Ca, 90292, USA

    Reid Swanson & Andrew S. Gordon

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  1. FH Erfurt, University of Applied Sciences, Altonaerstr. 25, 99085, Erfurt, Germany

    Ulrike Spierling

  2. TECFA, FPSE, University of Geneva, CH 1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    Nicolas Szilas

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Swanson, R., Gordon, A.S. (2008). Say Anything: A Massively Collaborative Open Domain Story Writing Companion. In: Spierling, U., Szilas, N. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4_5

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