Say Anything: A Massively Collaborative Open Domain Story Writing Companion

By Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon. 2008

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Sociology and Political Science, Natural Language Processing, Generative Models

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A Corpus and Cloze Evaluation for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Stories (2016, background): “This ranges from generic story telling models to building systems which can compose meaningful stories in collaboration with humans (Swanson and Gordon, 2008).”
Data-Driven Response Generation in Social Media (2011, unknown): “This general approach has been applied previously by several authors (Isbell et al., 2000; Swanson and Gordon, 2008; Jafarpour and Burges, 2010), and is used as a point of comparison in our experiments.”
Story Generation from Sequence of Independent Short Descriptions (2017, background): “Multitude of approaches ranging from evolutionary (genetic) algorithms [20] to mining of crowd sourced information [15, 33] from web have also been explored.”
Creative Writing with a Machine in the Loop: Case Studies on Slogans and Stories (2018, background): “Swanson and Gordon’s “Say Anything” [30] provides suggestions for writing short stories by prompting writers with full sentences retrieved from a database of stories scraped from the web after every turn of writing.”
Learning Script Knowledge with Web Experiments (2010, background): “There are many other potential applications, including automated storytelling (Swanson and Gordon, 2008), anaphora resolution (McTear, 1987), and information extraction (Rau et al.”
Identifying Personal Stories in Millions of Weblog Entries (2009, background): “Swanson & Gordon (2008) describe a system called Say Anything, an interactive storytelling application where a user and the computer take turns writing sentences in an emerging fictional narrative.”
Luke, I am Your Father: Dealing with Out-of-Domain Requests by Using Movies Subtitles (2014, background): “Finally, another related systems that should be mentioned, although developed with other goal, is Say Anything [14] where the user and the computer take turns to write a story.”