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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"story generation"”.
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Driving story generation with learnable character models
… the world. On a high level, a key component of story understanding is story generation. In human thought, generation enables us to imagine, solve problems, and make decisions. Therefore, to take computational story understanding to the next level, this research makes a number of contributions …
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Examination Of Speech Disfluencies In The Story Generation Narratives Of Bidialectal Children
… and variety of speech disfluencies in their story generation narratives. The story generation narratives of children who speak with no variation (monodialectal), some variation (bidialectal), and strong variation (monodialectal) from MAE were coded for speech disfluencies and analyzed for …
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The friendly enemies: emergence effects in word choice for story generation responses to conceptual combinations
… combinations. Stories written from atypical story seeds were not rated by coders as being more creative than those written from similar seeds, but they did contain more verbs, auxiliary verbs and adverbs, as identified by the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) program, possibly …
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Multimodal generative models for storytelling
Storytelling is an open-ended task that entails creative thinking and requires a constant flow of ideas. Generative models have recently gained momentum thanks to their ability to identify complex data's inner structure and learn efficiently from unlabeled data [34]. Natural language generation …
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Planning techniques for agent based 3D animations.
… to be a challenge for computer animated story generation systems. We present a novel prototype which consists of a 3D engine and a planner for a simple virtual world. We incorporate the 2D planner into the 3D engine to provide 3D animations. Based on the plan, the 3D world is created and …
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Language Skills, Oral Narrative Production, and Executive Functions of Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
… analysis. Narratives were elicited through story retell and story generation, and measured their organization structures. EFs were assessed two ways. One was through parent report and the other was through performance based measures.</p> <p>Results of the language assessments indicate that …
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Evaluating the utility of the test of narrative language for use with deaf children via American Sign Language
… the standards of the test and examined: factual story comprehension, story retell abilities (and inclusion of target terms), story generation from a picture sequence, and story generation from a single picture scene. This study found that though the hearing group outperformed the deaf group on …
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Narrative discourse production in language impaired learning disabled young adolescents
… young adolescents on a number of measures: story length, amount of information, coherence, evaluation and cohesion. In addition, it compared the performance of language impaired learning disabled and non-learning disabled young adolescents on three types of narrative tasks (story generation …
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Narrative Skills in Children with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
… with the same vocabulary age (VA) performed on story retelling and story generation tasks. The children were asked to retell two stories of different lengths (Stein and Glenn's Melvin, the Skinny Mouse and The Tiger's Whisker) and generate two stories from different stimuli (wordless picture …
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Stylistic Dialogue Generation Based on Character Personality in Narrative Films.
… systems consist of two steps of process, story generation and discourse generation. However, many interactive systems make more effort on story generation rather than discourse generation. For discourse generation, dialogue is an important way used to unfold story and reveal characters in …
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Controlling Behavior with Shared Knowledge
… for constructing narratives by developing a story-generation agent that emulates the cognitive processes of how human readers create detailed mental models, referred to as the “reader model”, which they use to understand and interpret stories with shared knowledge. Employing the reader model …
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The role of metacognitive strategy use in second grade students with learning disabilities during written spelling tasks
… they are performing written spelling lists and story generation tasks. One-on-one interviews were conducted with two second grade students with learning disabilities after they had written ten word spelling lists as well as a story based on a photograph of their choice. The interviews were …
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Electrophysiological and Behavioural Markers of Associative Source Memory Decline in Normal Ageing
… tasks under two methods: firstly, sentence generation to enhance semantic binding; and secondly, story generation to increase contextual binding. Results indicate that the use of an intervention allowed for enhanced source memory recall in older adults compared to both control groups. In …