MEXICA: A computer model of a cognitive account of creative writing

MEXICA is a computer model that produces frameworks for short stories based on the engagement-reflection cognitive account of writing. During engagement MEXICA generates material guided by content and rhetorical constraints, avoiding the use of explicit goals or story-structure information. During r...

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Published in:Journal of experimental & theoretical artificial intelligence 2001-04, Vol.13 (2), p.119-139
Main Authors: PÉrez, Rafael PÉrez Ý, Sharples, Mike
Format: Article
Language:English
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Engagement Reflection Creativity Computerised Storyteller
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Summary:MEXICA is a computer model that produces frameworks for short stories based on the engagement-reflection cognitive account of writing. During engagement MEXICA generates material guided by content and rhetorical constraints, avoiding the use of explicit goals or story-structure information. During reflection the system breaks impasses, evaluates the novelty and interestingness of the story in progress and verifies that coherence requirements are satisfied. In this way, MEXICA complements and extends those models of computerised story-telling based on traditional problem-solving techniques where explicit goals drive the generation of stories. This paper describes the engagement-reflection account of writing, the general characteristics of MEXICA and reports an evaluation of the program.
ISSN:0952-813X
1362-3079
DOI:10.1080/09528130010029820