Project: PlotGEN

By Hunter Gallant

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Concept

Why would we hard-code a plotline structure? My idea is to have the computer look at a text, discern important plot information from it, and construct its own story from that.

Outline

1. Text Retrieval
2. Build plot structure
   • Plotline graphs
   • Qualitative plot descriptions
3. Generate new plot structure
4. Text generation based on new plot
5. Loop over this 10,000 times
6. Submit to NaNoGenMo
7. Profit?

Resources

• POS tags
  • https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2003/ling001/penn_treebank_pos.html
• Article about Six Plots Analysis
  • https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8qxkkb/computers-find-that-there-are-six-plots
• Matthew Jockers' blogpost about his analysis
  • http://www.matthewjockers.net/2015/02/25/the-rest-of-the-story/
• Datasets of Positive/Negative words
  • https://www.cs.uic.edu/~liub/FBS/sentiment-analysis.html#lexicon