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With the fast development of internet technology, people can have easy access to a massive amount of information. The goal of this project is to provide a personal assistant for helping people explore large network of information by using narrative technologies. We propose an automated narration system that takes structured information and tailors the presentation to the user. It is aimed at presenting the information as an interesting and meaningful story by taking into consideration a combination of factors including topic consistency, novelty, user interests, and the user’s preferences in exploration style. We present preliminary results of using this system for presenting information about the 2008 Summer Olympics Games, followed by discussion and future work.
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Si, M. (2015). Tell a Story About Anything. In: Schoenau-Fog, H., Bruni, L., Louchart, S., Baceviciute, S. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9445. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_37
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