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Re:Micro-Talespin: A Story Generator in Common Lisp (1992) by listic on Saturday July 25, 2015 @04:50PM (#9948945)
What's the current state of the art in this kind of software and what is it called, anyway? I assume it should be natural language synthesis or story generation?
Re:Micro-Talespin: A Story Generator in Common Lisp (1992) by mjn on Saturday July 25, 2015 @05:45PM (#9949156)
Story generation, or occasionally automated storytelling, is the keyword for systems that aim to write complete stories, with a narrative structure. There is also a field of natural language generation (NLG) that more broadly looks at generating text (for various purposes); it's a much bigger field.

This online encyclopedia entry has a decent short overview of some of the story-generation systems that have been built over the years: http://wikis.sub.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/index.php/Story_Generato...

Re:Micro-Talespin: A Story Generator in Common Lisp (1992) by creade on Sunday July 26, 2015 @12:59AM (#9950189)
You might also check out the past few years of NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month):

https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014 https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo