An Integrated Narrative Generation System

This chapter introduces an integrated narrative generation system (INGS), which is one of the central parts in the author's study that aims to define an integrated approach to narrative generation. In the narrative generation study, all parts are considered as components that serve the extreme generative and productive goals, and the most important element of the goals corresponds to the design and development of INGS. This chapter divides INGS into two parts: mechanisms and contents. The main generation modules in INGS are for story, narrative discourse, and expression including language, music, and picture images, which are performed using various narrative techniques. On the other hand, INGS has dictionaries, including conceptual and language, and various knowledge, including story content and state-event transformation knowledge bases, which correspond to the aspect of contents. This chapter explains the mechanisms in the order of the entire process and states in detail the conceptual dictionaries, mainly noun and verb conceptual dictionaries.

Toward External and Internal Practices of Narrative Generation

From relationships to the level of multiple narrative structures, the geinō information system (GIS) described in the previous chapter corresponds to a social-level narrative generation mechanism beyond the narrative generation as a simple substance or as something including many narrative generation as a simple substance. From a wider viewpoint here, as an overview, this chapter attempts to discuss the future of the narrative generation systems. In this chapter, the author discusses the topic from two directions: external narrative generation and internal narrative generation. The “external” is the outer world beyond the “I” and ordinarily refers to a society or societies. Conversely, the “internal” is equal to the world inside the “I.” Therefore, although the practice of narrative generation toward the outer direction ordinarily indicates the social development of narrative generation, the practice of narrative generation toward the internal is equal to the direction of narrative generation study for drawing “I” in any style.

An Analysis of Advertisements for Narrative Generation

This chapter focuses on an advertisement analysis from the author's previous narrative analyses. The advertisement analysis is based on the idea of “advertisement as a narrative.” In particular, this chapter first introduces the previous fundamental attempts for a study of advertisement narrative generation systems. This was planned as an application of a narrative generation study and has continued in advertisement analyses and in the design and implementation of experimental systems from two viewpoints: the macro framework and the methods introducing brands into advertisements. In the next, central part of this chapter, the author describes in detail the analysis of television commercial strategies based on three regular or ordinary strategy types and nine irregular or extraordinary strategy types. This study has been applied to the development of advertisement narrative generation techniques in the subsequent research. The last part of this chapter mentions the systematization's topic.

Kabuki as a Synthetic Narrative

Although the author has previously written several papers on kabuki addressing the narrative generation of kabuki or kabuki as narrative generation, this chapter is a kind of synthesis. At first, the chapter provides a focused summary of what kabuki is, which has already been summarized in the author's previous papers, and presents the synthetic characteristics of kabuki as narrative generation. The next section describes the main 15 narrative elements or techniques and several cross-sectional elements or techniques beyond conceptual description. Through two types of systems, including an integrated narrative generation system (INGS) and geinō information system (GIS), the author presents an entire image and design of narrative generation mechanisms in kabuki. Dependent on the above, the last section explains in detail several elements and techniques of kabuki and presents ideas of concrete design and implementation of kabuki-related narrative generation systems by the author.