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  <Title>A MODULAR APPROACH TO STORY GENERATION</Title>
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INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Over the last twelve years, research in Psychology and AI into narrative structure has been marked by acrimonious disputes over the right to existence of the &amp;quot;story grammar&amp;quot; approach. The point at issue is whether it is possible, as story grammarians suggest, to identify structural regularities particular to narrative texts (Mandler and Johnson, 1980; Pemberton, 1987; Shen, 1988), or whether any structural regularities should be interpreted rather as world knowledge, usable in contexts other than stories (Gamham, 1983; Wilensky, 1980; Yazdani, 1982).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The work described in this paper adopts the story grammarian position, arguing that a general model of story structure may be used, in conjunction with, but separate from, a model of the &amp;quot;story world&amp;quot;, to generate stories. Moreover, a fuller version of such an account of story generation must draw not only on the general story structure model and the story world model, but also on aspects of the audience, the author, the medium of expression and the cultural context.</Paragraph>
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