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title: "BiPOCL: A Discourse-Driven Story Planner for Procedural Narrative Generation (Extended Abstract)"
authors:
  - "David R. Winer"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2016/595"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2016/0595.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2016
pages: "4042-4042"
track: ""
keywords:
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# BiPOCL: A Discourse-Driven Story Planner for Procedural Narrative Generation (Extended Abstract)

David R. Winer

*Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 4042-4042.

## Abstract

Typical narrative generation systems adopt a story-then-discourse pipeline approach in which fabula (i.e. story) is procedurally generated and provided as input for generating discourse and narration (e.g. text or animation). However, stories produced independently from a communicative plan are not guaranteed to have properties which are readily tellable or worth telling. This extended abstract describes an approach to narrative planning in which constraints for a story are discovered as part of the search for compatible story and discourse solutions.