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Links to Links
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Interactive Story Net
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Great site for links to everything from synthetic characters
to digital art.
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Narrative Intelligence Links
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Simple set of links to story-generation and interactive
fiction sites.
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AISB Contributed Links
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The Society for the Study of Artificial
Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour list of links contributed
by members.
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AI, Cognitive Science and Robotics
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Guide to research groups for AI, neural networks
and for papers and conferences.
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Interactive Fiction
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Huge list of interactive fiction sites and resources.
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Autonomous Characters (etc...)
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Gigantic list of sites relating to computer-generated characters, agents and other stuff like that there, uh, yeah.
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Simon Laven: Chatterbots
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Clearing house of everything chatterbot related.
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Artificial Life Links
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Links to everything having to do with artificial life and related subjects.
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Genetic Algorithms Archive
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The Genetic Algorithms Archive is a repository for information related to research in
genetic algorithms and other forms of evolutionary computation.
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Digital Storytelling
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Story Center
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The Center for Digital Storytelling website.
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MIT Media Lab: Gestures and Narrative Language Group
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Projects dealing with digital storytelling - mainly using computer systems to assist in the creation and understanding of stories.
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Erasmatazz
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Group involved in story-creation software.
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Virtual Characters
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The Oz Project
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CMU group that eventually formed the Zoesis company does work on behavioral models for characters.
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MIT Media Lab Synthetic Characters Group
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Main web site for the MIT Media Lab Synthetic Characters Group.
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NYU Improv Project
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The NYU Improv group works on behavioral and improvisational models of synthetic character acting.
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Babyz
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Virtual Babys.
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Petz
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Virtual cats n' dogs.
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The Sims
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Recent Maxis game with virtual character interaction.
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The Living Letters
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Zoesis' publicly playable virtual character demo.
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Creatures
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The official creatures website.
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Virtual Personalities
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Site that features Synthetic Interview-like technology.
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Haptek
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Company that also makes virtual characters that are Synthetic Interview-like.
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Eliza
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The original Eliza, rewritten in Javascript.
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Companies and People
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Zoesis
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Zoesis Corp. does research into behavioral models of characters.
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Janet Murray
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Author of "Hamlet on the Holodeck" and other work about digital storytelling.
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Brenda Laurel
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Author of essays on the future of media and computers.
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MIT Media Lab
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The MIT Media Lab official website.
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Chris Crawford
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Game designer/writer and currently head of the Erasmatazz group.
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NYU Media Research Lab
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Research group investigating techniques for creating improvisational virtual characters.
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The Virtual Theater Project
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Group interested in building individual characters that can take direction from the user or the environment, and act according to these directions in ways that are consistent with their unique emotions, moods, and personalities.
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Loebner Prize
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Official web site of the Loebner Prize for the best machine judged in a Turing Test.
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Books and Papers
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Story-morphing
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Paper on story generation through "emotionally intelligent" multimedia agents.
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Hamlet on the Holodeck Resources
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Listing of sources for Janet Murrays book.
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Understanding Interactivity
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Chris Crawford's book on interactivity.
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Erasmatazz Library
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The Erasmatazz site library of papers.
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The Oz Project Paper
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A survey of the work by the Oz project at CMU.
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Interactive Entertainment
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Wired article on interactive entertainment.
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Understanding human behavior via stories
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Human thinking and stories: a paper on computer program design for telling stories.
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Research paradigms for agents as synthetic characters
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Paper on synthetic characters.
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Oz Project Publications
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Listing of all Oz Project publications and papers.
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Multiple Character Interaction Between Believable Characters
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GDC Paper addressing characters in computer games.
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Emotional Computing: from Reaction to Reason
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Paper: The evolution of affective computing for software agents as inspired by emotion psychology.
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Artificial Life meets Entertainment: Lifelike Autonomous Agents
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Paper on the challenges of creating entertaining autonomous characters.
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Hypertext
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eNarrative
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Site for creating Web experiences with lasting impact.
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Hyperizons
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Clearing house for hypertext info.
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Eastgate Systems
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Commercial Hypertext publishing company.
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Electronic Literature Organization
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An organization designed to facilitate and promote the writing, publishing, and reading of literature in electronic media.
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Hypertext Fiction: A Literary Theory
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Paper on hypertext and issues such as linearity.
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Virtual Theater
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The Virtual Theater Project
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The Virtual Theater project studies the creation of intelligent, automated characters that can act either in well-defined stories or in improvisational environments.
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Interactive Cinema
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Not sure what they do...but it sure looks important.
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Natural Language
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Signiform: ThoughtTreasure
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ThoughtTreasure knowledge systemfor natural language processing.
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Cycorp: Knowledge Server
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Commercial ThoughtTreasure-like system.
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OpenMind Common Sense System
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MIT system that is currently being trained with common sense phrases.
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WordNet
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Word definition and super-thesaurus (hypernym) system.
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LinkGrammar
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Natural language parsing system using a link grammar technique.
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Natural Language Processing Module
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Cornell University CS Course in NLP.
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Software Tools for NLP
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Huge list of resources for NLP and applications.
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Natural Language Software Registry
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The Natural Language Software Registry (NLSR) is a
concise summary of the capabilities and sources of a
large amount of natural language processing (NLP)
software available to the NLP community.
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Text Analysis and Generation
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Text Analysis Resources
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Information on text analysis software, archives, articles, and newsgroups.
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Content Analysis Resources
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Information on text content analysis software, archives, articles, and newsgroups.
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Pikachizer
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Make text sound like Pikachu wrote it.
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Dialectizer
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Change text to sound like any number of different dialects.
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Jesusifier
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Make anything sound more biblical.
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