Lara J. MartinDo you do AI research in story generation or interactive fiction playing generation? Do you have a cool narrative system that you want to show off but don't know how to?
Submit to the Wordplay Workshop @ ACL 2024!
https://wordplay-workshop.github.io/
Relatedly: If you are a UMBC student or have recently been admitted to UMBC, I will be teaching a special topics course on the subject!
Here's the website from a previous iteration of the course: https://interactive-fiction-class.org/2022/
Here's the website from a previous iteration of the course: https://interactive-fiction-class.org/2022/
Ferdinando Simonetti @laramar I am interested in fiction generation, but I'm also quite ignorant on all things AI.
Should I follow this event?
Should I follow this event?
@rimmon1971 Sure! It'll be a good way to get acquainted with some AI
Ian Bicking@laramar That looks very fun! But very far away...
I'm doing some of this recreationally (https://hachyderm.io/@ianbicking/112162654708813318) but would love to connect to other people, do you know of places where folks are hanging out and discussing this stuff?
Ian Bicking (@[email protected])
I made a short demo video of a hobby project of mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EoYmNGIMgo – a sort of foray into LLM-driven roleplaying, experimenting with action resolution, explicit relationship levels, and other details, using previous worldbuilding as the setting (https://ianbicking.org/blog/2023/04/world-building-gpt-2-declarative)
@ianbicking Neat! We're publishing at ACL* conferences (https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.229/)
and AIIDE (https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIIDE/article/view/27534) 😉
and AIIDE (https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIIDE/article/view/27534) 😉
FIREBALL: A Dataset of Dungeons and Dragons Actual-Play with Structured Game State Information
Andrew Zhu, Karmanya Aggarwal, Alexander Feng, Lara J. Martin, Chris Callison-Burch. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2023.
Colin Rowat@laramar do you know people working on generating interactions, rather than the stories?
I had sailed to Japan - which had tight COVID controls - during the pandemic to see my children. I've been encouraged to write a book, but don't like imposing my own narrative nearly as much as I like engaging with an audience.
Thus, I'm trying to understand how close we are to that.
@rowat_c I know some people who are working on interactions in visualization (e.g., Emily Wall https://emilywall.github.io/), but also narrative can sometimes be emergent. That is, the user is extracting their own story from the interactions---think like talking about how your Sims are doing. For example, this paper by James Ryan et al. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_2