Storytelling

2025

Glenn Matlin, Devin Zhang, Rodrigo Barroso Loza, Diana M. Popescu, Joni Isbell, Chandreyi Chakraborty, and Mark Riedl
Do Language Models Agree with Human Perceptions of Suspense in Stories?
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Language Models (2025).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytellingLarge Language Models

@InProceedings{Matlin2025Suspense, author = {Glenn Matlin and Devin Zhang and Loza, Rodrigo Barroso and Popescu, Diana M. and Joni Isbell and Chandreyi Chakraborty and Mark Riedl}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Language Models}, title = {Do Language Models Agree with Human Perceptions of Suspense in Stories?}, year = {2025}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15794}, keywords = {story, llms}, }

Eric Zhou, Shreyas Basavatia, Moontashir Siam, Zexin Chen, and Mark O. Riedl
STORY2GAME: Generating (Almost) Everything in an Interactive Fiction Game
arXiv:2505.03547 (2025).
arXiv bibtexStorytellingInteractive StoriesGame Generation

@Article{Zhou2025GeneratingAlmostEverything, author = {Eric Zhou and Shreyas Basavatia and Moontashir Siam and Zexin Chen and Riedl, Mark O.}, journal = {arXiv:2505.03547}, title = {STORY2GAME: Generating (Almost) Everything in an Interactive Fiction Game}, year = {2025}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03547}, keywords = {story, int, game}, }

Md Sultan Al Nahian, Tasmia Tasrin, Spencer Frazier, Mark Riedl, and Brent Harrison
The Goofus & Gallant Story Corpus for Practical Value Alignment
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (2025).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytellingValue Alignment

@InProceedings{Nahian2025Goofus, author = {Md Sultan Al Nahian and Tasmia Tasrin and Spencer Frazier and Mark Riedl and Brent Harrison}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications}, title = {The Goofus & Gallant Story Corpus for Practical Value Alignment}, year = {2025}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09707}, keywords = {story, align}, }

2024

Zhiyu Lin, Upol Ehsan, Rohan Agarwal, Samihan Dani, Vidushi Vashishth, and Mark Riedl
Beyond Following: Mixing Active Initiative into Computational Creativity
Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (2024).
arXiv Workshop bibtexStorytellingReinforcement LearningCreativity

@InProceedings{Lin2024BeyondFollowing, author = {Zhiyu Lin and Upol Ehsan and Rohan Agarwal and Samihan Dani and Vidushi Vashishth and Mark Riedl}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Experimental {AI} in Games}, title = {Beyond Following: Mixing Active Initiative into Computational Creativity}, year = {2024}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16291}, keywords = {story, rl, create}, }

Kaige Xie and Mark O. Riedl
Creating Suspenseful Stories with Large Language Models
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) (2024).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytellingLarge Language Models

@InProceedings{Xie2024Suspense, author = {Kaige Xie and Riedl, Mark O.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)}, title = {Creating Suspenseful Stories with Large Language Models}, year = {2024}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17119}, keywords = {story, llms}, }

2023

Xiangyu Peng, Christopher Cui, Wei Zhou, Renee Jia, and Mark O. Riedl
Story Shaping: Teaching Agents Human-like Behavior with Stories
Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2023).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytellingInteractive StoriesAgentsReinforcement LearningValue Alignment

@InProceedings{Peng2023Shaping, author = {Xiangyu Peng and Christopher Cui and Wei Zhou and Renee Jia and Riedl, Mark O.}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment}}, title = {Story Shaping: Teaching Agents Human-like Behavior with Stories}, year = {2023}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10107}, keywords = {story, int, agents, rl, align}, }

2022

Zhiyu Lin, Rohan Agarwal, and Mark Riedl
Creative Wand: A System to Study Effects of Communications in Co-Creative Settings
Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytellingCreativity

@InProceedings{Lin2022CreativeWand, author = {Zhiyu Lin and Rohan Agarwal and Riedl, Mark}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment}, title = {Creative Wand: A System to Study Effects of Communications in Co-Creative Settings}, year = {2022}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02886}, keywords = {story, create}, }

Louis Castricato, Alexander Havrilla, Shahbuland Matiana, Michael Pieler, Anbang Ye, Ian Yang, Spencer Frazier, and Mark Riedl
Robust Preference Learning for Storytelling via Contrastive Reinforcement Learning
arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07792 (2022).
arXiv bibtexStorytellingLarge Language ModelsReinforcement LearningValue Alignment

@Article{Castricato2022Robust, author = {Louis Castricato and Alexander Havrilla and Shahbuland Matiana and Michael Pieler and Anbang Ye and Ian Yang and Spencer Frazier and Riedl, Mark}, journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07792}, title = {Robust Preference Learning for Storytelling via Contrastive Reinforcement Learning}, year = {2022}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07792}, keywords = {story, llms, rl, align}, }

Md Sultan Al Nahian, Spencer Frazier, Brent Harrison, and Mark Riedl
Machine Learning Approaches for Principle Prediction in Naturally Occurring Stories
arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06048 (2022).
arXiv bibtexStorytellingValue Alignment

@Article{Nahian2022NaturallyOccurring, author = {Md Sultan Al Nahian and Spencer Frazier and Brent Harrison and Riedl, Mark}, journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06048}, title = {Machine Learning Approaches for Principle Prediction in Naturally Occurring Stories}, year = {2022}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06048}, keywords = {story, align}, }

Anbang Ye, Christopher Cui, Taiwei Shi, and Mark O. Riedl
Neural Story Planning
arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.08718 (2022).
arXiv bibtexStorytellingLarge Language Models

@Article{Ye2022NeuralStoryPlanning, author = {Anbang Ye and Christopher Cui and Taiwei Shi and Riedl, Mark O.}, journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.08718}, title = {Neural Story Planning}, year = {2022}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08718}, keywords = {story, llms}, }

Xiangyu Peng, Kaige Xie, Amal Alabdulkarim, Harshith Kayam, Samihan Dani, and Mark O. Riedl
Guiding Neural Story Generation with Reader Models
Findings of EMNLP 2022 (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytellingLarge Language Models

@Article{Peng2022ReaderModels, author = {Xiangyu Peng and Kaige Xie and Amal Alabdulkarim and Harshith Kayam and Samihan Dani and Riedl, Mark O.}, journal = {Findings of EMNLP 2022}, title = {Guiding Neural Story Generation with Reader Models}, year = {2022}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2022.02.24}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.08596}, keywords = {story, llms}, }

Xiangyu Peng, Siyan Li, Sarah Wiegreffe, and Mark O. Riedl
Inferring the Reader: Guiding Automated Story Generation with Commonsense Reasoning
Findings of EMNLP 2022 (2022).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytellingLarge Language Models

@Article{Peng2022Inferring, author = {Xiangyu Peng and Siyan Li and Sarah Wiegreffe and Riedl, Mark O.}, journal = {Findings of EMNLP 2022}, title = {Inferring the Reader: Guiding Automated Story Generation with Commonsense Reasoning}, year = {2022}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2021.05.21}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01311}, keywords = {story, llms}, }

2021

Amal Alabdulkarim, Winston Li, Lara J. Martin, and Mark O. Riedl
Goal-Directed Story Generation: Augmenting Generative Language Models with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2112.08593 (2021).
arXiv bibtexStorytellingLarge Language ModelsReinforcement Learning

@Article{Alabdulkarim2021GoalDirected, author = {Amal Alabdulkarim and Winston Li and Martin, Lara J. and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Goal-Directed Story Generation: Augmenting Generative Language Models with Reinforcement Learning}, journal = {arXiv:2112.08593}, year = {2021}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2022.02.24}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.08593}, keywords = {story, llms, rl}, }

Louis Castricato, Spencer Frazier, Jonathan Balloch, Nitya Tarakad, and Mark O. Riedl
Automated Story Generation as Question-Answering
arXiv:2112.03808 (2021).
arXiv bibtexStorytellingLarge Language Models

@Article{Castricato2021Edgar, author = {Louis Castricato and Spencer Frazier and Jonathan Balloch and Nitya Tarakad and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Automated Story Generation as Question-Answering}, journal = {arXiv:2112.03808}, year = {2021}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2021.12.10}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03808}, keywords = {story, llms}, }

Wai Man Si, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, and Mark O. Riedl
Telling Stories through Multi-User Dialogue by Modeling Character Relations
Proceedings of the 2021 SIGDIAL Conference (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytellingLarge Language Models

@InProceedings{Si2021Dialogue, author = {Si, Wai Man and Ammanabrolu, Prithviraj and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Telling Stories through Multi-User Dialogue by Modeling Character Relations}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 SIGDIAL Conference}, year = {2021}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2021.05.26}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.15054}, keywords = {story, llms}, }

Amal Alabdulkarim, Siyan Li, and Xiangyu Peng
Automatic Story Generation: Challenges and Attempts
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding (2021).
arXiv Workshop bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{Alabdulkarim2021Challenges, author = {Amal Alabdulkarim and Siyan Li and Xiangyu Peng}, title = {Automatic Story Generation: Challenges and Attempts}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding}, year = {2021}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2021.05.21}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12634}, keywords = {story}, }

Louis Castricato, Spencer Frazier, Jonathan Balloch, and Mark O. Riedl
Tell Me A Story Like I'm Five: Story Generation via Question Answering
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding (2021).
Workshop bibtexStorytellingLarge Language Models

@InProceedings{Castricato2021Five, author = {Castricato, Louis and Frazier, Spencer and Balloch, Jonathan and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Tell Me A Story Like I'm Five: Story Generation via Question Answering}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding}, year = {2021}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2021.05.21}, keywords = {story, llms}, }

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Mark O. Riedl
Telling Stories through Multi-User Dialogue by Modeling Character Relations
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding (2021).
Workshop bibtexStorytellingInteractive StoriesLarge Language Models

@InProceedings{Ammanabrolu2021Dialogue, author = {Ammanabrolu, Prithviraj and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Telling Stories through Multi-User Dialogue by Modeling Character Relations}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding}, year = {2021}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2021.05.21}, keywords = {story, int, llms}, }

Louis Castricato, Stella Biderman, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, and David Thue
Towards a Formal Model of Narratives
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding (2021).
arXiv Workshop bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{Castricato2021Formal, author = {Louis Castricato and Stella Biderman and Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E. and David Thue}, title = {Towards a Formal Model of Narratives}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding}, year = {2021}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2021.05.21}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12872}, keywords = {story}, }

Zhiyu Lin and Mark O. Riedl
Plug-and-Blend: A Framework for Controllable Story Generation with Blended Control Codes
Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2021).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytellingLarge Language Models

@InProceedings{LinPlug2021, author = {Zhiyu Lin and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Plug-and-Blend: A Framework for Controllable Story Generation with Blended Control Codes}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment}, year = {2021}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2021.05.21}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04039}, keywords = {story, llms}, }

Louis Castricato, Spencer Frazier, Jonathan Balloch, and Mark O. Riedl
Fabula Entropy Indexing: Objective Measures of Story Coherence
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding (2021).
arXiv Workshop bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{CastricatoFabula2021, author = {Louis Castricato and Spencer Frazier and Jonathan Balloch and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Fabula Entropy Indexing: Objective Measures of Story Coherence}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding}, year = {2021}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2021.05.21}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07472}, keywords = {story}, }

2020

Spencer Frazier, Md Sultan Al Nahian, Mark O. Riedl, and Brent Harrison
Learning Norms from Stories: A Prior for Value Aligned Agents
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (2020).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytellingValue Alignment

@InProceedings{Frazier2020LearningNF, author = {Spencer Frazier and Md Sultan Al Nahian and Mark O. Riedl and Brent Harrison}, title = {Learning Norms from Stories: A Prior for Value Aligned Agents}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society}, year = {2020}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03553}, keywords = {story, align}, }

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Wesley Cheung, Dan Tu, William Broniec, and Mark O Riedl
Bringing stories alive: Generating interactive fiction worlds
Proceedings of the Sixteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-20) (2020).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytellingInteractive StoriesGame Generation

@InProceedings{ammanabrolu2020bringing, author = {Ammanabrolu, Prithviraj and Cheung, Wesley and Tu, Dan and Broniec, William and Riedl, Mark O}, title = {Bringing stories alive: Generating interactive fiction worlds}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-20)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10161}, keywords = {story, int, game}, }

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Wesley Cheung, William Broniec, and Mark O Riedl
Automated Storytelling via Causal, Commonsense Plot Ordering
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2020).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{ammanabrolu2020automated, author = {Ammanabrolu, Prithviraj and Cheung, Wesley and Broniec, William and Riedl, Mark O}, title = {Automated Storytelling via Causal, Commonsense Plot Ordering}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, year = {2020}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00829}, keywords = {story}, }

2019

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Ethan Tien, Wesley Cheung, Zhaochen Luo, William Ma, Lara J. Martin, and Mark O. Riedl
Story Realization: Expanding Plot Events into Sentences
Proceedings of AAAI 2020 (2019).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{ammanabrolu:aaai2020, author = {Ammanabrolu, Prithviraj and Ethan Tien and Wesley Cheung and Zhaochen Luo and William Ma and Martin, Lara J. and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Story Realization: Expanding Plot Events into Sentences}, booktitle = {Proceedings of AAAI 2020}, year = {2019}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2019.07.16}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03480}, keywords = {story}, }

Pradyumna Tambwekar, Murtaza Dhuliawala, Lara J. Martin, Animesh Mehta, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl
Controllable Neural Story Plot Generation via Reward Shaping
Proceedings of the 2019 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2019).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytellingReinforcement Learning

@InProceedings{tambwekar:ijcai2019, author = {Pradyumna Tambwekar and Murtaza Dhuliawala and Martin, Lara J. and Animesh Mehta and Brent Harrison and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Controllable Neural Story Plot Generation via Reward Shaping}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, year = {2019}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2019.07.16}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10736}, keywords = {story, rl}, }

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Ethan Tien, Wesley Cheung, Zhaochen Luo, William Ma, Lara J. Martin, and Mark O. Riedl
Guided Neural Language Generation for Automated Storytelling
Proceedings of the 2019 ACL Workshop on Storytelling (StoryNLP) (2019).
Workshop bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{ammanabrolu:acl-storynlp2019, author = {Ammanabrolu, Prithviraj and Ethan Tien and Wesley Cheung and Zhaochen Luo and William Ma and Martin, Lara J. and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Guided Neural Language Generation for Automated Storytelling}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 ACL Workshop on Storytelling (StoryNLP)}, year = {2019}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2019.07.16}, keywords = {story}, }

2018

Siddharth Srinivasan, Richa Arora, and Mark O. Riedl
A Simple and Effective Approach to the Story Cloze Test
Proceedings of NAACL 2018 (2018).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{srinivasan:naacl2018, author = {Srinivasan, Siddharth and Richa Arora and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {A Simple and Effective Approach to the Story Cloze Test}, booktitle = {Proceedings of NAACL 2018}, year = {2018}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2018.02.27}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05547}, keywords = {story}, }

Christopher Purdy, Xinyu Wang, Larry He, and Mark O. Riedl
Predicting Generated Story Quality with Quantitative Measures
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2018).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{purdy:aiide2018, author = {Purdy, Christopher and Wang, Xinyu and He, Larry and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Predicting Generated Story Quality with Quantitative Measures}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment}, year = {2018}, cvnote = {Best Student Paper}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2018.07.19}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/purdy-aiide18.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

Lara J. Martin, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Xinyu Wang, William Hancock, Shruti Singh, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl
Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (2018).
arXiv Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{martin:aaai2018, author = {Martin, Lara J. and Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Xinyu Wang and William Hancock and Shruti Singh and Brent Harrison and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence}, year = {2018}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2017.09.12}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01331}, keywords = {story}, }

2017

Lara J. Martin, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Xinyu Wang, Shruti Singh, Brent Harrison, Murtaza Dhuliawala, Pradyumna Tambwekar, Animesh Mehta, Richa Arora, Nathan Dass, Chris Purdy, and Mark O. Riedl
Improvisational Storytelling Agents
Proceedings of the NIPS 2017 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design (2017).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytellingInteractive Stories

@InProceedings{martin:nips-mlcd2017, author = {Martin, Lara J. and Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Xinyu Wang and Shruti Singh and Brent Harrison and Murtaza Dhuliawala and Pradyumna Tambwekar and Animesh Mehta and Richa Arora and Nathan Dass and Chris Purdy and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Improvisational Storytelling Agents}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the NIPS 2017 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design}, year = {2017}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2017.11.29}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/martin-nips-mlcd17.pdf}, keywords = {story, int}, }

Lara J. Martin, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, William Hancock, Shruti Singh, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl
Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets
Proceedings of the KDD 2017 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity (2017).
Workshop bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{martin:kdd-mlc2017, Title = {Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets}, Author = {Martin, Lara J. and Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and William Hancock and Shruti Singh and Brent Harrison and Riedl, Mark O.}, Booktitle = {Proceedings of the KDD 2017 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity}, Year = {2017}, Owner = {riedl}, Timestamp = {2017.07.08}, keywords = {story}, }

Brent Harrison, Christopher Purdy, and Mark O. Riedl
Toward Automated Story Generation with Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods and Deep Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the 2017 AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (2017).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{harrison:int2017, author = {Harrison, Brent and Purdy, Christopher and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Toward Automated Story Generation with Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods and Deep Neural Networks.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies}, year = {2017}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2017.09.12}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/int17.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

2016

Mark O. Riedl
Computational Narrative Intelligence: A Human-Centered Goal for Artificial Intelligence
Proceedings of the CHI 2016 Workshop on Human Centered Machine Learning (2016).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{riedl:chi-hcml2016, author = {Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Computational Narrative Intelligence: A Human-Centered Goal for Artificial Intelligence}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the CHI 2016 Workshop on Human Centered Machine Learning}, year = {2016}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2016.01.13}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/chi-hcml16.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

Christopher Purdy and Mark O. Riedl
Reading Between the Lines: Using Plot Graphs to Draw Inferences From Stories
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (2016).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{purdy:icids2016, author = {Purdy, Christopher and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Reading Between the Lines: Using Plot Graphs to Draw Inferences From Stories}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling}, year = {2016}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2016.06.30}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/purdy-icids16.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

2015

Brian O'Neill and Mark O. Riedl
Emotion-Driven Narrative Generation
Emotion in Games--Theory and Practice (2015).
Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InCollection{oneill:chapter2015, Title = {Emotion-Driven Narrative Generation}, Author = {O'Neill, Brian and Riedl, Mark O.}, Booktitle = {Emotion in Games--Theory and Practice}, Publisher = {Springer}, Year = {2015}, Editor = {Georgios Yannakakis and Kostas Karpouzis}, Owner = {riedl}, Timestamp = {2015.03.23}, keywords = {story}, }

2014

M.O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
The Importance of Narrative as an Affective Instructional Strategy
Design Recommendations for Adaptive Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Adaptive Instructional Strategies 2 (2014).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytellingEducation

@InCollection{riedl:gift2014, author = {Riedl, M.O. and Young, R. Michael}, title = {The Importance of Narrative as an Affective Instructional Strategy}, booktitle = {Design Recommendations for Adaptive Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Adaptive Instructional Strategies}, publisher = {Army Science Lab}, year = {2014}, volume = {2}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2014.02.19}, url = {https://www.gifttutoring.org/attachments/627/Design%20Recommendations%20for%20ITSs_Instructional%20Management%20Book%20-%20Volume%202.pdf}, keywords = {story, edu}, }

Brian C. O'Neill and Mark O. Riedl
Applying Qualitative Research Methods to Narrative Knowledge Engineering
Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (2014).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{oneill:cmn2014, author = {O'Neill, Brian C. and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Applying Qualitative Research Methods to Narrative Knowledge Engineering}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative}, year = {2014}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2014.04.05}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/cmn14.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

Brian C. O'Neill and Mark O. Riedl
Dramatis: A Computational Model of Suspense
Proceedings of the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2014).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{oneill:aaai2014, author = {O'Neill, Brian C. and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Dramatis: A Computational Model of Suspense}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, year = {2014}, cvsidenote = {28\%}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2014.01.30}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/oneill-aaai14.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

Boyang Li, Mohini Thakkar, Yijie Wang, and Mark O. Riedl
From Data to Storytelling Agents
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (2014).
Conference bibtexStorytellingHuman Computation

@InProceedings{li:iva2014, Title = {From Data to Storytelling Agents}, Author = {Li, Boyang and Thakkar, Mohini and Yijie Wang and Riedl, Mark O.}, Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents}, Year = {2014}, Owner = {riedl}, Timestamp = {2014.04.13}, keywords = {story, hcomp}, }

Boyang Li, Mohini Thakkar, Yijie Wang, and Mark O. Riedl
Data-Driven Storytelling Agents with Adjustable Personal Traits and Sentiments
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (2014).
Conference bibtexStorytellingHuman Computation

@InProceedings{li:icids2014, Title = {Data-Driven Storytelling Agents with Adjustable Personal Traits and Sentiments}, Author = {Li, Boyang and Thakkar, Mohini and Yijie Wang and Riedl, Mark O.}, Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling}, Year = {2014}, Cvsidenote = {29\%}, Owner = {riedl}, Timestamp = {2014.04.13}, keywords = {story, hcomp}, }

Boyang Li, Mohini Thakkar, Yijie Wang, and Mark O. Riedl
Data-Driven Alibi Story Telling for Social Believability
Proceedings of the 2014 Foundations of Digital Games workshop on Social Believability in Games (2014).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytellingHuman Computation

@InProceedings{li:fdg-sbg2014, author = {Boyang Li and Mohini Thakkar and Yijie Wang and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Data-Driven Alibi Story Telling for Social Believability}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 Foundations of Digital Games workshop on Social Believability in Games}, year = {2014}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2014.01.27}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/sbg14.pdf}, keywords = {story, hcomp}, }

Boyang Li
Learning Knowledge to Support Domain-Independent Narrative Intelligence
(2014).
PDF bibtexStorytellingHuman Computation

@PhdThesis{li:dissertation2014, author = {Li, Boyang}, title = {Learning Knowledge to Support Domain-Independent Narrative Intelligence}, school = {Georgia Institute of Technology}, year = {2014}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2015.09.29}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/li-thesis.pdf}, keywords = {story, hcomp}, }

Yun-Gyung Cheong, Mark Riedl, Byung-Chull Bae, and Mark J. Nelson
Planning with applications to quests and story
Procedural Content Generation in Games (2014).
Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InCollection{cheong:textbook2014, Title = {Planning with applications to quests and story}, Author = {Cheong, Yun-Gyung and Riedl, Mark and Bae, Byung-Chull and Nelson, Mark J.}, Booktitle = {Procedural Content Generation in Games}, Publisher = {Springer}, Year = {2014}, Editor = {Shaker, Noor and Togelius, Julian and Nelson, Mark J.}, Owner = {riedl}, Timestamp = {2013.10.01}, keywords = {story}, }

2013

Mark O. Riedl
Intelligent Narrative Generation: Creativity, Engagement, and Cognition
International Workshop on Perspectives of Information Technology (2013).
Workshop bibtexStorytellingCreativity

@InProceedings{riedl:pit2013, Title = {Intelligent Narrative Generation: Creativity, Engagement, and Cognition}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O.}, Booktitle = {International Workshop on Perspectives of Information Technology}, Year = {2013}, Owner = {riedl}, Timestamp = {2013.04.21}, keywords = {story, create}, }

Brian O'Neill
A Computational Model of Suspense for the Augmentation of Intelligent Story Generation
(2013).
PDF bibtexStorytelling

@PhdThesis{oneill:dissertation2013, author = {Brian O'Neill}, title = {A Computational Model of Suspense for the Augmentation of Intelligent Story Generation}, school = {Georgia Institute of Technology}, year = {2013}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2014.12.29}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/oneill-thesis.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

Boyang Li, Stephen Lee-Urban, and Mark O. Riedl
Crowdsourcing Interactive Fiction Games
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (2013).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytellingInteractive StoriesHuman Computation

@InProceedings{li:fdg2013, author = {Li, Boyang and Lee-Urban, Stephen and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Crowdsourcing Interactive Fiction Games}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games}, year = {2013}, address = {Chania, Crete, Greece}, month = {May}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2013.03.07}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/li-fdg13.pdf}, keywords = {story, int, hcomp}, }

Boyang Li, Stephen Lee-Urban, George Johnston, and Mark O. Riedl
Story Generation with Crowdsourced Plot Graphs
Proceedings of the 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2013).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytellingHuman Computation

@InProceedings{li:aaai2013, author = {Li, Boyang and Lee-Urban, Stephen and Johnston, George and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Story Generation with Crowdsourced Plot Graphs}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, year = {2013}, address = {Bellevue, Washington}, month = {July}, cvsidenote = {29\%}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2013.01.23}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/aaai13.pdf}, keywords = {story, hcomp}, }

2012

Boyang Li, Steve Lee-Urban, D. Scott Appling, and Mark O. Riedl
Automatically Learning to Tell Stories about Social Situations from the Crowd
Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (2012).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytellingHuman Computation

@InProceedings{li:cmn2012, author = {Li, Boyang and Lee-Urban, Steve and Appling, D. Scott and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Automatically Learning to Tell Stories about Social Situations from the Crowd}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative}, year = {2012}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, month = {May}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2012.02.24}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/cmn12.pdf}, keywords = {story, hcomp}, }

Boyang Li, Stephen Lee-Urban, D. Scott Appling, and Mark O. Riedl
Crowdsourcing Narrative Intelligence
Advances in Cognitive Systems 2 (2012).
PDF Journal bibtexStorytellingHuman Computation

@Article{li:acs2012, author = {Li, Boyang and Lee-Urban, Stephen and Appling, D. Scott and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Crowdsourcing Narrative Intelligence}, journal = {Advances in Cognitive Systems}, year = {2012}, volume = {2}, pages = {25--42}, month = {December}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/acs12.pdf}, keywords = {story, hcomp}, }

Boyang Li, D. Scott Appling, Stephen Lee-Urban, and Mark O. Riedl
Learning Sociocultural Knowledge via Crowdsourced Examples
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Human Computation (2012).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytellingValue AlignmentHuman Computation

@InProceedings{li:hcomp2012, author = {Li, Boyang and Appling, D. Scott and Lee-Urban, Stephen and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Learning Sociocultural Knowledge via Crowdsourced Examples}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Human Computation}, year = {2012}, address = {Toronto, Canada}, month = {July}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2012.04.02}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/hcomp12.pdf}, keywords = {story, align, hcomp}, }

Boyang Li
Narrative Intelligence Without (Domain) Boundaries
Proceedings of the 8th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Doctoral Consortium (2012).
Conference bibtexStorytellingHuman Computation

@InProceedings{li:aiide-dc2012, Title = {Narrative Intelligence Without (Domain) Boundaries}, Author = {Boyang Li}, Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Doctoral Consortium}, Year = {2012}, Month = {October}, Owner = {riedl}, Timestamp = {2013.04.21}, keywords = {story, hcomp}, }

2011

Ken Hartsook, Alexander Zook, Sauvik Das, and Mark O Riedl
Toward supporting stories with procedurally generated game worlds
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (2011).
IEEE Conference bibtexStorytellingGame Generation

@InProceedings{Hartsook2011TowardSupportingStories, author = {Ken Hartsook and Alexander Zook and Sauvik Das and Riedl, Mark O}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games}, title = {Toward supporting stories with procedurally generated game worlds}, year = {2011}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6032020}, keywords = {story, game}, }

Mark O. Riedl, Ken Hartsook, Sauvik Das, Alexander Zook, and Boyang Li
Game Forge: An Intelligent System that Generates Computer Role Playing Games
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Video Competition (2011).
Conference bibtexStorytellingGame Generation

@InProceedings{riedl:aivc2011, Title = {{Game Forge}: An Intelligent System that Generates Computer Role Playing Games}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O. and Hartsook, Ken and Das, Sauvik and Zook, Alexander and Li, Boyang}, Booktitle = {Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Video Competition}, Year = {2011}, Month = {July}, Cvnote = {Nominated for most innovative project.}, Owner = {riedl}, Timestamp = {2011.07.25}, keywords = {story, game}, }

Mark O. Riedl
Just-in-time Procedural Content Generation of Game Plots
2011 East Coast Game Conference (2011).
Conference bibtexStorytellingGame Generation

@InProceedings{riedl:ecgc2011, Title = {Just-in-time Procedural Content Generation of Game Plots}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O.}, Booktitle = {2011 East Coast Game Conference}, Year = {2011}, Owner = {riedl}, Timestamp = {2011.02.25}, keywords = {story, game}, }

Brian O'Neill and Mark O. Riedl
Simulating the Everyday Creativity of Readers
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Creativity (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{oneill:iccc2011, author = {O'Neill, Brian and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Simulating the Everyday Creativity of Readers}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Creativity}, year = {2011}, pages = {153-158}, address = {Mexio City, Mexico}, month = {April}, cvsidenote = {67\%}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2010.11.23}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/oneill-iccc11.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

Brian O'Neill and Mark Riedl
Toward a Computational Framework of Suspense and Dramatic Arc
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{oneill:acii2011, author = {Brian O'Neill and Mark Riedl}, title = {Toward a Computational Framework of Suspense and Dramatic Arc}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction}, year = {2011}, pages = {246-255}, address = {Memphis, Tennessee}, month = {October}, cvnote = {Nominated for Outstanding Paper Award (3\% of papers nominated).}, cvsidenote = {35\%}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2011.04.24}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/acii11.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

Brian O'Neill, Andrea Piplica, Daniel Fuller, and Brian Magerko
A Knowledge-Based Framework for the Collaborative Improvisation of Scene Introductions
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (2011).
Conference bibtexStorytellingCreativity

@InProceedings{oneill:icids2011, Title = {A Knowledge-Based Framework for the Collaborative Improvisation of Scene Introductions}, Author = {O'Neill, Brian and Piplica, Andrea and Fuller, Daniel and Magerko, Brian}, Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling}, Year = {2011}, Address = {Vancouver, Canada}, Month = {November}, Owner = {riedl}, Timestamp = {2012.07.12}, keywords = {story, create}, }

Brian O'Neill
Toward a Computational Model of Affective Responses to Stories for Augmenting Narrative Generation
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Doctoral Consortium (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{oneill:acii-dc2011, author = {O'Neill, Brian}, title = {Toward a Computational Model of Affective Responses to Stories for Augmenting Narrative Generation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Doctoral Consortium}, year = {2011}, month = {October}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2011.06.01}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/acii-dc11.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

Boyang Li and Mark O. Riedl
Creative Gadget Design in Fictions: Generating Novel Object Types in Analogical Spaces
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (2011).
Conference bibtexStorytellingCreativity

@InProceedings{li:cc2011, Title = {Creative Gadget Design in Fictions: Generating Novel Object Types in Analogical Spaces}, Author = {Li, Boyang and Mark O. Riedl}, Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition}, Year = {2011}, Address = {Atlanta, Georgia}, Month = {November}, Pages = {41-50}, Cvsidenote = {23\%}, Owner = {riedl}, Timestamp = {2011.04.29}, keywords = {story, create}, }

Boyang Li and Mark O. Riedl
A Phone That Cures Your Flu: Generating Imaginary Gadgets in Fictions with Planning and Analogies
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (2011).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytellingCreativity

@InProceedings{li:aiide-int2011, author = {Li, Boyang and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {A Phone That Cures Your Flu: Generating Imaginary Gadgets in Fictions with Planning and Analogies}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies}, year = {2011}, pages = {41-48}, address = {Palo Alto, California}, month = {October}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2011.08.07}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/aiide-int11.pdf}, keywords = {story, create}, }

Sanjeet Hajarnis, Christina Leber, Hua Ai, Mark Riedl, and Ashwin Ram
A Case Base Planning Approach for Dialogue Generation in Digital Movie Design
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (2011).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytellingCinematography

@InProceedings{hajarnis:iccbr2011, author = {Sanjeet Hajarnis and Christina Leber and Hua Ai and Mark Riedl and Ashwin Ram}, title = {A Case Base Planning Approach for Dialogue Generation in Digital Movie Design}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Case Based Reasoning}, year = {2011}, pages = {452-466}, address = {Greenwich, London, England}, month = {September}, cvsidenote = {50\%}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2011.05.17}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/iccbr11.pdf}, keywords = {story, cinema}, }

2010

Mark O. Riedl, David Thue, and Vadim Bulitko
Game AI as Storytelling
Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games (2010).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytellingInteractive Stories

@InCollection{riedl:ai4games2010, author = {Riedl, Mark O. and Thue, David and Bulitko, Vadim}, title = {Game {AI} as Storytelling}, booktitle = {Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2010}, editor = {Pedro Gonz\'alez-Calero}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2010.03.07}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/riedl-ai4games.pdf}, keywords = {story, int}, }

Mark O. Riedl
Case-Based Story Planning: Creativity Through Exploration, Retrieval, and Analogical Transformation
Minds and Machines 20 (2010).
Journal bibtexStorytellingCreativity

@Article{riedl:mm2010, Title = {Case-Based Story Planning: Creativity Through Exploration, Retrieval, and Analogical Transformation}, Author = {Mark O. Riedl}, Journal = {Minds and Machines}, Year = {2010}, Number = {4}, Volume = {20}, keywords = {story, create}, }

Boyang Li and Mark O. Riedl
Planning for Individualized Experiences with Quest-Centric Game Adaptation
ICAPS 2010 Workshop on Planning in Games (2010).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytellingInteractive StoriesGame Generation

@InProceedings{li:icaps-pg2010, author = {Boyang Li and Mark O. Riedl}, title = {Planning for Individualized Experiences with Quest-Centric Game Adaptation}, booktitle = {ICAPS 2010 Workshop on Planning in Games}, year = {2010}, address = {Toronto, Canada}, month = {May}, owner = {riedl}, timestamp = {2010.02.28}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/icaps-pg10.pdf}, keywords = {story, int, game}, }

Boyang Li and Mark O. Riedl
An Offline Planning Approach to Game Plotline Adaptation
Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (2010).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytellingInteractive StoriesGame Generation

@InProceedings{li:aiide2010, author = {Li, Boyang and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {An Offline Planning Approach to Game Plotline Adaptation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference}, year = {2010}, pages = {45-50}, address = {Palo Alto, California}, month = {October}, cvsidenote = {29\%}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/li-aiide10.pdf}, keywords = {story, int, game}, }

Boyang Li and Mark O. Riedl
Creating Customized Game Experiences by Leveraging Human Creative Effort: A Planning Approach
Agents for Games and Simulations (2010).
Conference bibtexStorytellingInteractive StoriesCreativityGame Generation

@InCollection{li:ags2010, Title = {Creating Customized Game Experiences by Leveraging Human Creative Effort: A Planning Approach}, Author = {Li, Boyang and Riedl, Mark O.}, Booktitle = {Agents for Games and Simulations}, Publisher = {Springer}, Year = {2010}, Editor = {Frank Dignum}, Owner = {riedl}, Timestamp = {2010.09.30}, keywords = {story, int, create, game}, }

Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
Narrative Planning: Balancing Plot and Character
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 39 (2010).
arXiv Journal bibtexStorytelling

@Article{riedl:jair2010, author = {Riedl, Mark O. and R. Michael Young}, title = {Narrative Planning: Balancing Plot and Character}, journal = {Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research}, year = {2010}, volume = {39}, pages = {217-268}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.3841}, keywords = {story}, }

2009

David L. Roberts, Mark O. Riedl, and Charles Isbell
Beyond Adversarial: The Case for Game AI as Storytelling
Proceedings of the 2009 Conference of the Digital Games Research Association (2009).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytellingInteractive Stories

@InProceedings{roberts:digra2009, author = {David L. Roberts and Mark O. Riedl and Charles Isbell}, title = {Beyond Adversarial: The Case for Game {AI} as Storytelling}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2009 Conference of the Digital Games Research Association}, year = {2009}, address = {London, England}, month = {September}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/digra09.pdf}, keywords = {story, int}, }

Mark O. Riedl and Carlos Le'on
Generating Story Analogues
Proceedings of the 5th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2009).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytellingCreativity

@InProceedings{riedl:aiide2009, author = {Riedl, Mark O. and Carlos Le\'on}, title = {Generating Story Analogues}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment}, year = {2009}, address = {Palo Alto, California}, month = {October}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/aiide09.pdf}, keywords = {story, create}, }

Brian O'Neill and Mark O. Riedl
Supporting Human Creative Story Authoring with a Synthetic Audience
Proceedings of the 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference (2009).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytellingCreativity

@InProceedings{oneill:cc2009, author = {Brian O'Neill and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Supporting Human Creative Story Authoring with a Synthetic Audience}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference}, year = {2009}, address = {Berkeley, California}, month = {October}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/oneill-cc09.pdf}, keywords = {story, create}, }

James Niehaus and Mark O. Riedl
Scenario Adaptation: An Approach to Customizing Computer-Based Training Games and Simulations
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education Workshop on Intelligent Educational Games (2009).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytellingInteractive StoriesEducation

@InProceedings{niehaus:aied-ieg2009, author = {James Niehaus and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Scenario Adaptation: An Approach to Customizing Computer-Based Training Games and Simulations}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education Workshop on Intelligent Educational Games}, year = {2009}, address = {Brighton, England}, month = {July}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/aied-ieg09.pdf}, keywords = {story, int, edu}, }

James Niehaus and Mark O. Riedl
Toward Scenario Adaptation for Learning
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) (2009).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytellingInteractive StoriesEducation

@InProceedings{niehaus:aied2009, author = {James Niehaus and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Toward Scenario Adaptation for Learning}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED)}, year = {2009}, address = {Brighton, England}, month = {July}, cvsidenote = {30\%}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/aied09.pdf}, keywords = {story, int, edu}, }

Adam Fitzgerald, Gurlal Kahlon, and Mark O. Riedl
A Computational Model of Emotional Response to Stories
Proceedings of the 2nd Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (2009).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{fitzgerald:icids2009, author = {Adam Fitzgerald and Gurlal Kahlon and Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {A Computational Model of Emotional Response to Stories}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling}, year = {2009}, pages = {312-315}, address = {Guimar\~aes, Portugal}, month = {December}, cvsidenote = {40\%}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/icids09.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

D. Scott Appling and Mark O. Riedl
The Role of Plot Understanding in Plot Generation
Intelligent Narrative Technologies II: Papers from the 2009 Spring Symposium (Technical Report SS-09-06) (2009).
Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{appling:aaai-ss2009, Title = {The Role of Plot Understanding in Plot Generation}, Author = {D. Scott Appling and Riedl, Mark O.}, Booktitle = {Intelligent Narrative Technologies II: Papers from the 2009 Spring Symposium (Technical Report SS-09-06)}, Year = {2009}, Address = {Palo Alto, California}, Editor = {Sandy Louchart and David Roberts and Manish Mehta}, Month = {March}, Pages = {1-4}, Publisher = {AAAI Press}, keywords = {story}, }

Mark O. Riedl
Incorporating Authorial Intent into Generative Narrative Systems
Intelligent Narrative Technologies II: Papers from the 2009 Spring Symposium (Technical Report SS-09-06) (2009).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{riedl:aaai-ss2009, author = {Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Incorporating Authorial Intent into Generative Narrative Systems}, booktitle = {Intelligent Narrative Technologies II: Papers from the 2009 Spring Symposium (Technical Report SS-09-06)}, year = {2009}, editor = {Sandy Louchart and David Roberts and Manish Mehta}, pages = {91-94}, address = {Palo Alto, California}, month = {March}, publisher = {AAAI Press}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/riedl-aaai-ss09.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

2008

Mark O. Riedl
Computationally Creative Search for Stories
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC) (2008).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytellingCreativity

@InProceedings{riedl:dcc2008, author = {Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Computationally Creative Search for Stories}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC)}, year = {2008}, address = {Atlanta, Georgia}, month = {June}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/dcc08.pdf}, venue = {DCC}, keywords = {story, create}, }

Mark O. Riedl and Neha Sugandh
Story Planning with Vignettes: Toward Overcoming the Content Production Bottleneck
Proceedings of the 1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (2008).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytellingInteractive Stories

@InProceedings{riedl:is2008, author = {Riedl, Mark O. and Neha Sugandh}, title = {Story Planning with Vignettes: Toward Overcoming the Content Production Bottleneck}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling}, year = {2008}, pages = {168-179}, address = {Erfurt, Germany}, month = {November}, cvsidenote = {30\%}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/riedl-icids08.pdf}, venue = {IS}, keywords = {story, int}, }

Mark O. Riedl, Jonathan P. Rowe, and David K. Elson
Toward Intelligent Support of Authoring Machinima Media Content: Story and Visualization
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN) (2008).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytellingCreativityCinematography

@InProceedings{riedl:intetain2008, author = {Riedl, Mark O. and Jonathan~P. Rowe and David~K. Elson}, title = {Toward Intelligent Support of Authoring Machinima Media Content: Story and Visualization}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN)}, year = {2008}, address = {Playa del Carmen, Mexico}, month = {January}, cvnote = {Awarded best paper.}, cvsidenote = {24\%}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/intetain08.pdf}, keywords = {story, create, cinema}, }

Mark O. Riedl and Carlos Le'on
Toward Vignette-Based Story Generation for Drama Management Systems
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN), Workshop on Integrating Technologies for Interactive Stories (2008).
Workshop bibtexStorytellingInteractive Stories

@InProceedings{riedl:itis2008, Title = {Toward Vignette-Based Story Generation for Drama Management Systems}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O. and Carlos Le\'on}, Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN), Workshop on Integrating Technologies for Interactive Stories}, Year = {2008}, Address = {Playa del Carmen, Mexico}, Month = {January}, keywords = {story, int}, }

Mark O. Riedl
Intelligent Narrative Computing: Creativity, Sense-Making, and Engagement
3rd International Colloquium in Creativity, Cognition, and Computers (2008).
Conference bibtexStorytellingCreativity

@InProceedings{riedl:icccc2008, Title = {Intelligent Narrative Computing: Creativity, Sense-Making, and Engagement}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O.}, Booktitle = {3rd International Colloquium in Creativity, Cognition, and Computers}, Year = {2008}, Address = {M\'exico City, M\'exico}, Publisher = {Universidad Aut\'onoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa, M\'exico City}, keywords = {story, create}, }

Mark O. Riedl
Vignette-Based Story Planning: Creativity Through Exploration and Retrieval
Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity (2008).
PDF Workshop bibtexStorytellingCreativity

@InProceedings{riedl:cc2008, author = {Riedl, Mark O.}, title = {Vignette-Based Story Planning: Creativity Through Exploration and Retrieval}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity}, year = {2008}, address = {Madrid, Spain}, month = {September}, cvnote = {Invited for submission to Minds and Machines journal.}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/riedl-ijwcc08.pdf}, venue = {CC}, keywords = {story, create}, }

2006

Mark O. Riedl
Emergent and Guided Narrative for Training and Education in Virtual Worlds
Institute for Creative Technologies Workshop on Intelligent Tutoring in Serious Games (2006).
Workshop bibtexStorytellingInteractive StoriesEducation

@InProceedings{riedl:itsg2006, Title = {Emergent and Guided Narrative for Training and Education in Virtual Worlds}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O.}, Booktitle = {Institute for Creative Technologies Workshop on Intelligent Tutoring in Serious Games}, Year = {2006}, Owner = {riedl}, Timestamp = {2013.04.21}, keywords = {story, int, edu}, }

Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
Story Planning as Exploratory Creativity: Techniques for Expanding the Narrative Search Space
New Generation Computing 24 (2006).
PDF Journal bibtexStorytellingCreativity

@Article{riedl:ngc2006, author = {Riedl, Mark O. and R.~Michael Young}, title = {Story Planning as Exploratory Creativity: Techniques for Expanding the Narrative Search Space}, journal = {New Generation Computing}, year = {2006}, volume = {24}, number = {3}, pages = {303--323}, cvnote = {A shorter version was presented at the Workshop on Computational Creativity 2005}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/cc05.pdf}, venue = {NGC}, keywords = {story, create}, }

Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
From Linear Story Generation to Branching Story Graphs
IEEE Journal of Computer Graphics and Animation 26 (2006).
Journal bibtexStorytellingInteractive Stories

@Article{riedl:cga2006, Title = {From Linear Story Generation to Branching Story Graphs}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O. and R.~Michael Young}, Journal = {IEEE Journal of Computer Graphics and Animation}, Year = {2006}, Number = {3}, Pages = {23--31}, Volume = {26}, Cvnote = {A shorter version was presented at the Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment 2005}, Venue = {CGA}, keywords = {story, int}, }

Mark O. Riedl, Andrew Stern, and Don Dini
Mixing Story and Simulation in Interactive Narrative
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) (2006).
Conference bibtexStorytellingInteractive Stories

@InProceedings{riedl:aiide2006, Title = {Mixing Story and Simulation in Interactive Narrative}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O. and Andrew Stern and Don Dini}, Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE)}, Year = {2006}, Address = {Marina Del Rey, California}, Month = {June}, keywords = {story, int}, }

Mark O. Riedl
Fabulist and Automated Story Director in the Little Red Riding Hood Domain
TIDSE 2006 Pre-Conference Demo Workshop on the Authoring Process in Interactive Storytelling (2006).
Workshop bibtexStorytellingInteractive Stories

@InProceedings{riedl:tidse-redcap2006, Title = {Fabulist and Automated Story Director in the Little Red Riding Hood Domain}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O.}, Booktitle = {TIDSE 2006 Pre-Conference Demo Workshop on the Authoring Process in Interactive Storytelling}, Year = {2006}, Address = {Darmstadt, Germany}, Month = {December}, keywords = {story, int}, }

Mark O. Riedl
Emergent and Guided Narrative for Training and Education in Virtual Worlds
League of World 3: Annual Colloquium on Online Simulations, Role-Playing, and Virtual Worlds (2006).
Conference bibtexStorytellingInteractive StoriesEducation

@InProceedings{riedl:low2006, Title = {Emergent and Guided Narrative for Training and Education in Virtual Worlds}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O.}, Booktitle = {League of World 3: Annual Colloquium on Online Simulations, Role-Playing, and Virtual Worlds}, Year = {2006}, keywords = {story, int, edu}, }

Mark O. Riedl
Emergent and Guided Narrative for Training and Education in Virtual Worlds
Air Force Research Lab Workshop on Storytelling as an Instructional Method: In Search of Theoretical and Empirical Foundations (2006).
Workshop bibtexStorytellingInteractive StoriesEducation

@InProceedings{riedl:afrl-sim2006, Title = {Emergent and Guided Narrative for Training and Education in Virtual Worlds}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O.}, Booktitle = {Air Force Research Lab Workshop on Storytelling as an Instructional Method: In Search of Theoretical and Empirical Foundations}, Year = {2006}, keywords = {story, int, edu}, }

2005

Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
From Linear Story Generation to Branching Story Graphs
Proceedings of the 1st AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2005).
Link Conference bibtexStorytellingInteractive Stories

@InProceedings{Riedl2025Linear, author = {Riedl, Mark O. and Young, R. Michael}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment}, title = {From Linear Story Generation to Branching Story Graphs}, year = {2005}, owner = {riedl}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIIDE/article/view/18725}, keywords = {story, int}, }

Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
An Objective Character Believability Evaluation Procedure for Multi-Agent Story Generation Systems
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) (2005).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{riedl:iva2005, author = {Riedl, Mark O. and R. Michael Young}, title = {An Objective Character Believability Evaluation Procedure for Multi-Agent Story Generation Systems}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)}, year = {2005}, pages = {278-291}, address = {Kos, Greece}, month = {September}, cvsidenote = {60\%}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/iva05.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
Open-World Planning for Story Generation
Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (2005).
Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{riedl:ijcai2005, Title = {Open-World Planning for Story Generation}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O. and R. Michael Young}, Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)}, Year = {2005}, Address = {Edinburgh, Scotland}, Month = {July}, Cvsidenote = {18\%}, keywords = {story}, }

Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
From Linear Story Generation to Branching Story Graphs
Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) (2005).
Conference bibtexStorytellingInteractive Stories

@InProceedings{riedl:aiide2005, Title = {From Linear Story Generation to Branching Story Graphs}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O. and R. Michael Young}, Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE)}, Year = {2005}, Address = {Maria Del Rey, California}, Month = {June}, Pages = {111-116}, Cvnote = {Invited for submission to CG\&A Special Issue (3 of 24 invited).}, Cvsidenote = {50\%}, keywords = {story, int}, }

Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
Story Planning as Exploratory Creativity: Techniques for Expanding the Narrative Search Space
Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop on Computational Creativity (2005).
Workshop bibtexStorytellingCreativity

@InProceedings{riedl:cc2005, Title = {Story Planning as Exploratory Creativity: Techniques for Expanding the Narrative Search Space}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O. and R.~Michael Young}, Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop on Computational Creativity}, Year = {2005}, Address = {Edinburgh, Scotland}, Month = {July}, Cvnote = {Invited for submission to New Generation Computing journal special issue.}, keywords = {story, create}, }

2004

Mark O. Riedl
Narrative Generation: Balancing Plot and Character
(2004).
bibtexStorytelling

@PhdThesis{riedl04, Title = {Narrative Generation: Balancing Plot and Character}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O.}, School = {North Carolina State University}, Year = {2004}, keywords = {story}, }

Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
A Planning Approach to Story Generation for History Education
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Narrative and Interactive Learning Environments (NILE) (2004).
Conference bibtexStorytellingEducation

@InProceedings{riedl:nile2004, Title = {A Planning Approach to Story Generation for History Education}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O. and R.~Michael Young}, Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Narrative and Interactive Learning Environments (NILE)}, Year = {2004}, keywords = {story, edu}, }

Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
An Intent-Driven Planner for Multi-Agent Story Generation
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (2004).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{riedl:aamas2004, author = {Riedl, Mark O. and R.~Michael Young}, title = {An Intent-Driven Planner for Multi-Agent Story Generation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems}, year = {2004}, pages = {186-193}, address = {New York City, New York}, month = {July}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/aamas04.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

Mark O. Riedl
Equivalence between Narrative Mediation and Branching Story Graphs (Technical Report TR04-004)
(2004).
bibtexStorytellingInteractive Stories

@TechReport{riedl:tr04-004, Title = {Equivalence between Narrative Mediation and Branching Story Graphs (Technical Report TR04-004)}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O.}, Institution = {Liquid Narrative Group, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University}, Year = {2004}, keywords = {story, int}, }

2003

Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young
Character-Focused Narrative Planning for Execution in Virtual Worlds
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Virtual Storytelling (ICVS) (2003).
PDF Conference bibtexStorytelling

@InProceedings{riedl:icvs2003, author = {Riedl, Mark O. and R.~Michael Young}, title = {Character-Focused Narrative Planning for Execution in Virtual Worlds}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Virtual Storytelling (ICVS)}, year = {2003}, pages = {47-56}, address = {Toulouse, France}, month = {November}, url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/icvs03.pdf}, keywords = {story}, }

Mark O. Riedl
Actor Conference: Character-Focused Narrative Planning (Technical Report TR03-00)
(2003).
bibtexStorytelling

@TechReport{riedl:tr03-000, Title = {{Actor Conference}: Character-Focused Narrative Planning (Technical Report TR03-00)}, Author = {Riedl, Mark O.}, Institution = {Liquid Narrative Group, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University}, Year = {2003}, keywords = {story}, }