Paper draft: Generative Story Worlds as Linear Logic Programs
I'm pleased to announce that João Ferreira, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, and I have had a paper accepted at (INT)7! I've made a draft available (7 page pdf), though some parts may read a bit strangely with reference to our prior work, since the original submission was anonymized. (This was my first experience with double-blind reviewing, and, well, I suppose all current data places me in favor. ;) )
Abstract:
Linear logic programming languages have been identified in prior work as viable for specifying stories and analyzing their causal structure. We investigate the use of such a language for specifying story worlds, or settings where generalized narrative actions have uniform effects (not specific to a particular set of characters or setting elements), which may create emergent behavior through feedback loops.
We show a sizable example of a story world specified in the language Celf and discuss its interpretation as a story-generating program, a simulation, and an interactive narrative. Further, we show that the causal analysis tools available by virtue of using a proof-theoretic language for specification can assist the author in reasoning about the structure and consequences of emergent stories.
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