Would it be possible that a computer program can author a novel, with a balanced plot?
What kind of publications are helpful in developing auto generating romance software?
The level of interest in (number of questions about) Natural language generationappears to be increasing…. There is a Quora topic for Natural Language Generation.
Generally speaking, automated books are created from templates; however, “poetry generation systems” tend to be more random, like scrambled nonsense generated by “Markov systems” (aka “Markov generators”). At one time there was a fad of creating “poetry” by translating something into one language and then translating it back using Google Translate, which changed the words/meaning going each way.
Currently, the two main companies with products in the NLG space are Automated Insights and Narrative Science, focused on creating narrative from raw data. An interesting factoid is that David Ferrucci, principal investigator of IBM Watson, started his career working on “storytelling machines” (aka “automated storytelling”, “story generation” or “story generator”).
See also my Quora answers to:
- Could text to video software automatically generate video from a novel, only if trained on a large number novels?
- How can I use natural language processing methods to analyze some relationships in a novel?
- If an artificial intelligence could take in a well-written screenplay and turn that into a simulated movie, would that be an effective test of human-level AI and natural language processing (NLP)?
- How long until AI becomes advanced enough to understand stories?
- Are there any interactive games (graphical or text based) that employ Natural Language Processing for dialogue?