Seminar: Computational Story Generation (CS-BWP-AI - Artificial Intelligence, CS-MWP-AI - Artificial Intelligence) - Details

Allgemeine Informationen

Veranstaltungsname	Seminar: Computational Story Generation (CS-BWP-AI - Artificial Intelligence, CS-MWP-AI - Artificial Intelligence)
Untertitel
Veranstaltungsnummer	8.3426
Semester	WiSe 2019/20
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden	53
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl	40
Heimat-Einrichtung	LE Cognitive Science
Veranstaltungstyp	Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin	Montag, 28.10.2019 12:00 - 14:00, Ort: 50/E07
Art/Form
SWS	2
Sprache	Englisch
ECTS-Punkte	4

Lehrende

• Leonid Berov, M. Sc.

Räume und Zeiten

50/E07

Montag: 12:00 - 14:00, wöchentlich (14x)

Studienbereiche

• Veranstaltungen > Cognitive Science > Master-Programm
• Veranstaltungen > Cognitive Science > Bachelor-Programm

Modulzuordnungen

• Bachelor of Science Informatik > CS-BWP-AI - Künstliche Intelligenz, gültig ab WiSe 2019/20
• Bachelor of Science Mathematik > CS-BWP-AI - Künstliche Intelligenz, gültig ab WiSe 2019/20
• Bachelor of Science Cognitive Science > CS-BWP-AI - Künstliche Intelligenz, gültig ab WiSe 2019/20
• Master of Science Mathematik > CS-BWP-AI - Künstliche Intelligenz, gültig ab WiSe 2019/20

Kommentar/Beschreibung

In this course you will learn about computational story generation, that is, the effort to create software that acts creatively in the domain of literature.

Fictional stories are complex phenomena that the humanities have been trying to understand for at least two thousand years: they have synthetic properties, like a plot and an intended effects, which are stable, but also mimetic ones, like believable characters in a story world, which change over time. In order to be able to create novel and interesting stories by computational means, one also needs a preferably holistic computational representation of story, which is a non-trivial challenge.

Thus, in this course we will first dive into Literary Theory and Narratology to gain a grounded understanding of what a story is. We will then engage with foundational papers from computational creativity theory to analyse what constitutes a computational system that we would deem to be creative. Finally, we will look at classic as well as contemporary papers that actually deal with systems that generate stories, and discuss them in the light of what we previously learned.

Pre-requisites
- Basic theoretic knowledge in AI, basic experience in programming
- Willingness to read the course material on a regular basis (yes, I know this is hard 😉 )