Narration for virtual storytelling

The Virtual Storyteller is an agent-based system implemented in Java which can automatically generate simple fairy-tales. The system consists of several Character agents, a World agent and a Plot agent which together generate a plot. This plot is then passed to the Narrator agent which has to convert the plot into text in natural language. Earlier versions of the system used templates for the natural language generation process which resulted in rather monotonous texts. This document describes the design and implementation of a new Narrator agent which uses more sophisticated natural language generation techniques.