Expanding a love and sex narrative generation mechanism using a coloring technique and conceptual dictionaries

Abstract

Love and sexuality are important themes in the generation of narratives, which is our research objective. In the development of tools to generate narratives, we consider robot-related technology that tells stories as an application of narrative generation. The purpose of this paper is to present prototyping systems that generate narrative expression based on the concepts of love, sex, and sexuality using a technique for narrative generation called “coloring.” The coloring technique in narrative generation is a group of methods through which a certain atmosphere is given to a story by interspersing words and language representations. Although there are various concrete methods in the coloring technique as one of several general narrative generation techniques, this paper proposes three methods related to love, sex, and sexuality: the use of noun, adjective, and adjective-verb conceptual dictionaries. We conducted several experiments using these coloring methods. Additionally, for system implementation, we utilized a narrative generation framework called “story techniques included in a story,” which was developed based on our concept of the automatic narrative generation game, s-expression in the Lisp programming language, and Minsky’s frame theory. In the future, these prototypes will serve as stepping stones for a system that generates narratives based on specific themes.