Method and apparatus for triggering the automatic generation of narratives

摘要

Artificial intelligence methods and systems for triggering the generation of narratives are disclosed. Specific embodiments relate to real-time evaluation and automated generation of narrative stories based on received data. For example, data can be tested against data representative of a plurality of story angles to determine whether a narrative story incorporating one or more such story angles is to be automatically generated.

主权项

1. A method for applying artificial intelligence technology to process data in order to determine in an automated fashion whether a narrative story relating to that data is to be automatically generated, the method comprising:
processing data against a plurality of triggering angle data structures corresponding to a plurality of story angles, each of a plurality of the triggering angle data structures being representative of a characterization of data and having an associated applicability condition for testing against the processed data to determine whether the triggering angle data structure appropriately characterizes the processed data; in response to the processing, determining that at least one of the triggering angle data structures appropriately characterizes the processed data; computing interestingness data relating to the processed data as a function of the at least one triggering angle data structure that was determined to appropriately characterize the processed data; comparing the interestingness data with a threshold; and triggering an automatic generation of the narrative story relating to the processed data in response to the comparing step resulting in a determination that the interestingness data satisfies the threshold; and wherein the method steps are performed by a processor.