CLIP Colloquium: Mark Riedl (Georgia Tech)

Prof. Riedl will present virtually.

Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98806584197?pwd=SXBWOHE1cU9adFFKUmN2UVlwUEJXdz09 (passcode if needed: clip)

The Quest for Automated Story Generation

Abstract: Storytelling is a pervasive part of the human experience--we as humans tell stories to communicate, inform, entertain, and educate. In this talk, I will lay out the case for the study of storytelling through the lens of artificial intelligence. I will explore the grand challenge of building an intelligent systems that learn to tell stories. I will specifically look at two challenges pertaining to neural generative processes: control of text generation to achieve goal-driven behavior, and the challenge of maintaining and transferring long-term causal relations. While both of these challenges are necessary for automated story generation, they also appear in other artificial intelligence and natural language processing tasks as well.