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title: "Creating a Story-Telling Universe"
authors:
  - "Michael Lebowitz"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/15"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0015.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1983
pages: "63-64"
track: "Cognitive Modelling"
keywords:
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# Creating a Story-Telling Universe

Michael Lebowitz

*Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 63-64.

## Abstract

Extended story generation, such as the creation of soap opera stories, is a difficult and interesting problem for Artificial Intelligence. We present here the f1rst phase of the development of a program, UNIVERSE, to tell such stories. In particular, we mtrodu~e a method for creating u n1verses of characters appropnate for extended story generation. This method concentrates on the need to keep story-telling universes consistent and coherent. We describe the information that must be maintained for c haracters and interp ersonal relations, and the use of stereoty_piral information about people to help motivate tra1t values.