2019 Natural Language Processing: Mark Riedl (Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing)

Lecture title: The Quest for Automated Story Generation Storytelling is a pervasive part of the human experience--we as humans tell stories to communicate, inform, entertain, and educate. In this talk, I will lay out the case for the study of storytelling through the lens of artificial intelligence. I will explore the grand challenge of building an intelligent systems that learn to tell stories. I will specifically look at two challenges pertaining to neural generative processes: control of text generation