[Corpora-List] CACL-09: Invited speaker: Nick Montfort, MIT

[Anna Feldman]

Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity (CALC-09) 
http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=CALC-09

Invited speaker:  Nick Montfort (MIT)  http://nickm.com/

Curveship: A System for Interactive Fiction and Interactive Narrating

Interactive fiction (often called "IF") is a venerable thread of creative
computing that includes _Adventure,_ _Zork,_ and the computer game _The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ as well as innovative recent work. These
programs are usually known as "games," appropriately, but they can also be
rich forms of text-based computer simulation, dialog systems, and examples
of computational literary art. Theorists of narrative have long
distinguished between the level of underlying content or story (which can
usefully be seen as corresponding to the simulated world in interactive
fiction) and that of expression or discourse (corresponding to the textual
exchange between computer and user). While IF development systems have
offered a great deal of power and flexibility to author/programmers by
providing a computational model of the fictional world, previous systems
have not systematically distinguished between the telling and what is
told. Developers were not able to control the content and expression
levels independently so that they could, for instance, have a program
relate events out of chronological order or have it relate events from the
perspective of different characters. Curveship is an interactive fiction
system which draws on narrative theory and computational linguistics to
allow the transformation of the narrating in these ways. This talk will
briefly describe interactive fiction and narrative variation and will
detail how Curveship provides these new capabilities.



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