StoryIllustrator

Alexandro Artola

December 5th, 2002

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Outline

Overview System Description Mechanism Demo Retrospective Questions

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Overview

ARIA Open Mind Stories.com

Genres: Action, Children’s, Comedy, Drama, Horror, etc.

Yahoo!® Picture Galleryhttp://gallery.yahoo.com/

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System Description

Children’s Stories User selects images to include in a story

Input: Text fileOutput: Web-page with associated

images and CS knowledge

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Mechanism

Parse a text file to get nouns MontyTagger & Lemmatiser

Use stop-nouns list to get rid of abstract nouns Select nouns to:

Search images Traverse the “Semantic Net”

For each noun: Select image Search for CS-related images

Post web-page With images and CS tags

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Demo

“Deilia’s North Pole Adventure”by: Its Wrilly Winter Here

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What Went Well

DesignChanged over time

ImplementationPythonHugo and Push’s tools!

MontyTagger, Lemmatiser & OMCSNetOther packages

PyEdit & HTMLgen (from Programming Python)

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What Was Difficult

Design IssuesLimitations

Clean the “Semantic Net” Not able to use WALI Restriction to use nouns

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Possible Extensions

Include image descriptions Recursive CS image search Use WordNet instead of stop-nouns list Analogous concepts

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Questions?

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Try the System!

Python 2.2python.org

System~/mit/aartola/Public/MAS.964/

storyillustrator.zip

SemanticNet semanticnet.txt