How does artificial (automatic) story generation work?
What kind of publications are helpful in developing auto generating romance software?
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”).