Climate Storylines

Unseen Faces, Lingering Storylines

that occurred in difficult to reach rural settings, the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola epidemic involved major urban areas and thereby increased the potential to escalate from a regional epidemic to a pandemic. The West Africa Ebola outbreak was unprecedented in its scope, resulting in 28,616 reported cases and 11,300 deaths among adults and children. In all, Ebola cases were treated in 10 differe...

Global Hydrogen and Electricity Storylines

Generating storylines from sensor data

We present an approach for producing narratives, or storylines, from sensor data collected from a mobile phone. Given a training set of English-language descriptions of events and a set of corresponding sensor data, we learn a probabilistic translation model. Then, given new sensor data, our model can produce English-language descriptions of the events present in the data. Our approach is evalu...

Storylines for structuring massive streams of news

Stories are the most natural ways for people to deal with information about the changing world. They provide an efficient schematic structure to order and relate events according to some explanation. We describe (1) a formal model for representing storylines to handle streams of news and (2) a first implementation of a system that automatically extracts the ingredients of a storyline from news ...

Generating Dynamic Storylines Through Characters' Interactions

In this paper we describe a fully implemented prototype for interactive storytelling using the UnrealTM engine. We describe the important mechanisms involved in the variability of plot instantiations, within a scenario of sitcom genre. We also provide an evaluation of the concepts of how the dynamic interactions between agents and/or the user influence the generation of story, with first result...