Two talks: an introduction to the POEM lab; a survey paper on story generation
Principles of Expressive Machines Last week I gave a presentation to the first-year computer science grad student seminar on my research, AKA an introduction to the "Principles of Expressive Machines" (POEM) lab, because I am looking for students . This talk was my first attempt to organize my future research plans into something vaguely coherent and forward-looking (in more depth than my job talk described), so I thought I'd share the results of my efforts. Here are the slides: In the talk, I outline three research agendas: Narrative knowledge representation and generation Tools for game and interactive fiction design Social multi-agent system modeling The slides are not particularly verbose, but there should be enough in them to grant a sense of what I'm interested in. Story Generation Survey This semester, I'm teaching a course on Generative Methods, i.e. algorithms for producing creative artifacts -- such as stories. For the most part, stu