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Generation of Ideologically-Biased Historical Documentaries

  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Chatham College

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Abstract

Terminal Time is a machine that constructs ideologically-biased documentary histories in response to audience feedback. The audience answers multiple-choice questions via an applause meter. The answers to these questions influence which historical events are chosen from a knowledge base, how these events will be slanted to embody the bias implied in the audience's answers, and how the events will be connected together to form a historical narrative. Terminal Time's architecture consists of a knowledge base and inference engine for querying the knowledge base, ideological goal trees and rhetorical devices which represent the current bias, a natural language generator to turn the constructed history into narrative prose, and an indexed multimedia database used to sequence video against the narration.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 12fth Conference on Innovative Applications ofArtificial Intelligence, AAAI 2000
PublisherAAAI press
Pages236-242
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)0262511126, 9780262511124
StatePublished - 2000
Event17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAA1 2000 - Austin, United States
Duration: Jul 30 2000Aug 3 2000

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 12th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2000

Conference

Conference17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAA1 2000
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period07/30/0008/3/00

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