Pilot: Expressing Dramatic Character in Dialogue: A Toolkit for Creative Exploration of Linguistic Style

试点：在对话中表达戏剧人物：语言风格创造性探索的工具包

• 批准号: 1002921
• 负责人: Marilyn Walker
• 金额: $ 34.64万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1002921&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pilot; Expressing; Dramatic; Character; Dialogue

Computer games and other forms of interactive media have many potential benefits -- ranging from the educational to the economic. Games are used to educate in areas such as computer science, health care, and language learning, while game industry revenue is now larger than feature film box office receipts. But many subjects we would wish to teach, and many genres in which we would like to entertain, are fundamentally limited by current authoring approaches: in particular, the amount of character dialogue that must be hand-authored. This project will use what is known about the creative work of human authors together with advanced techniques from the field of "natural language generation" to explore a new approach to addressing this problem. In particular, it will integrate a new model of dialogue generation into an advanced tool for interactive story authoring, then evaluate the results when both expert and beginning authors work with the tool, giving us our first understanding of the promise of such techniques for enhancing the creativity of authors.The need for a new approach to dialogue is pressing. For example, the forthcoming commercial game LA Noir has a script of 2,200 pages (roughly equivalent to 12 feature films). Producing this amount of dialogue is simply impossible for educational game producers, and is nearing the limit of what commercial producers can manage, yet games can only continue to grow in sophistication by having more dialogue. This research works toward a solution for this dilemma, opening the door to further educational development and economic growth, by enhancing author creativity through cutting edge computer science. In addition, this project will help develop broader understanding of the field of Creative IT, providing a case study of how the knowledge of creative professionals and scientists can combine to produce social benefits that would be impossible for either working alone.

电脑游戏和其他形式的互动媒体有许多潜在的好处--从教育到经济。游戏被用于计算机科学、医疗保健和语言学习等领域的教育，而游戏行业的收入现在超过了电影票房收入。但是，我们希望教授的许多科目，以及我们希望娱乐的许多类型，从根本上受到当前创作方法的限制：特别是必须手工创作的角色对话的数量。该项目将利用人类作者的创造性工作以及“自然语言生成”领域的先进技术，探索解决这一问题的新方法。特别是，它将把一种新的对话生成模型集成到一个用于交互式故事创作的高级工具中，然后评估专家和新手作者使用该工具时的结果，让我们首次了解这种技术对增强作者创造力的承诺。例如，即将推出的商业游戏《黑色洛城》（LA Noir）有2,200页的剧本（大约相当于12部故事片）。制作这么多的对话对于教育游戏制作者来说是不可能的，而且已经接近商业制作者所能管理的极限，然而游戏只能通过更多的对话来继续发展。本研究致力于解决这一困境，打开大门，进一步教育发展和经济增长，通过提高作者的创造力，通过尖端的计算机科学。此外，该项目将有助于发展对创意IT领域的更广泛理解，提供一个案例研究，说明创意专业人员和科学家的知识如何能够联合收割机产生社会效益，这是单独工作所不可能的。