Using Social Media Posts as Knowledge Resource for Generating Life Stories

摘要

People thrive in storytelling as a means of sharing their experiences with one another and learning about the world through narratives. With the advancement of technology, social media platforms have become a common medium for people to recount and to share stories about their life events anytime and anywhere as they happen. Automated story generation systems can be designed to utilize this vast knowledge resource. In this paper, we describe the approach we used in sourcing storytelling knowledge from social media posts, specifically Faccbook, to extract events that can be used to form a life story. We also describe briefly our strategies in classifying the posts based on their textual con-lent to find snippets of life events. These posts are represented in an event model that is then used by our story generator to produce a personal life story that chronicles travelling, dining and celebrating activities. Results from user evaluation showed that Facebook data can provide enough information to generate a person's life story which introduces him/her to others through the narration of some life events that happened in his/her life.