Generation of Ideologically-Biased Historical Documentaries

Terminal Time is a machine that constructs ideologicallybiased documentary histories in response to audience feedback. The audience answers multiple-choice questions via an applause meter. The answers to these questions influence which historical events are chosen from a knowledge base, how these events will be slanted to embody the bias implied in the audience's answers, and how the events will be connected together to form a historical narrative. Terminal Time's architecture consists of a knowledge base and inference engine for querying the knowledge base, ideological goal trees and rhetorical devices which represent the current bias, a natural language generator to turn the constructed history into narrative prose, and an indexed multimedia database used to sequence video against the narration.

Authors

• Michael Mateas University of California, Santa Cruz
• University of Buffalo; Steffi Domike Chatham College

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