Special Topic: Storytelling Dialogue

Required Readings (for all students)

  1. R. Aylett (2022). Interactive Narrative and Story-telling. In B. Lugrin, C. Pelachaud, D. Traum (Eds.), The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents – 20 Years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics, Volume 2: Interactivity, Platforms, Application (pp. 463-492). ACM.

Required Readings(for presenter(s) and rapporteur(s))

  1. Mateas, Michael, and Andrew Stern. Structuring Content in the Façade Interactive Drama Architecture. AIIDE. 2005.
  2. Swanson, R., Gordon, A.S.: Say anything: a massively collaborative open domain story writing companion. In: Spierling, U., Szilas, N. (eds.) ICIDS 2008. LNCS, vol. 5334, pp. 32–40. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)
  3. Kathryn J. Collins and David Traum, Towards a multi-dimensional taxonomy of stories in dialogue in proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) pp. 118-124, 2016.
  4. Si, Wai Man, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, and Mark Riedl. Telling Stories through Multi-User Dialogue by Modeling Character Relations. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. 2021.

Other Readings
  1. Polanyi, Livia. Linguistic and social constraints on storytelling. Journal of Pragmatics 6.5-6 (1982): 509-524. APA
  2. Bickmore, T., & Cassell, J. (1999, November). Small talk and conversational storytelling in embodied conversational interface agents. In AAAI fall symposium on narrative intelligence (pp. 87-92).
  3. Mateas, M., & Stern, A. (2003, March). Integrating plot, character and natural language processing in the interactive drama Façade. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (TIDSE-03) (Vol. 2).
  4. T Bickmore, D Schulman, L Yin Engagement vs. deceit: Virtual humans with human autobiographies International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 6-19
  5. Bowden K.K., Lin G.I., Reed L.I., Fox Tree J.E., Walker M.A. (2016) M2D: Monolog to Dialog Generation for Conversational Story Telling. In: Nack F., Gordon A. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10045. Springer
  6. Martin L.J., Harrison B., Riedl M.O. (2016) Improvisational Computational Storytelling in Open Worlds. In: Nack F., Gordon A. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10045. Springer
  7. Setareh Nasihati Gilani, Kraig Sheetz, Gale Lucas, and David Traum, What Kind of Stories Should a Virtual Human Swap? in proceedings of IVA 2016 conference, 2016.