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

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