@inproceedings{doust-piwek-2017-model,
    title = "A model of suspense for narrative generation",
    author = "Doust, Richard  and
      Piwek, Paul",
    editor = "Alonso, Jose M.  and
      Bugar{\'i}n, Alberto  and
      Reiter, Ehud",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation",
    month = sep,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Santiago de Compostela, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/W17-3527/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-3527",
    pages = "178--187",
    abstract = "Most work on automatic generation of narratives, and more specifically suspenseful narrative, has focused on detailed domain-specific modelling of character psychology and plot structure. Recent work in computational linguistics on the automatic learning of narrative schemas suggests an alternative approach that exploits such schemas as a starting point for modelling and measuring suspense. We propose a domain-independent model for tracking suspense in a story which can be used to predict the audience{'}s suspense response on a sentence-by-sentence basis at the content determination stage of narrative generation. The model lends itself as the theoretical foundation for a suspense module that is compatible with alternative narrative generation theories. The proposal is evaluated by human judges' normalised average scores correlate strongly with predicted values."
}