Using social media posts as knowledge resource for generating life stories

• Main Authors: Te, Robee Khyra Mae J., Lam, Janica Mae M., Ong, Ethel C.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Natural language generation (Computer science); Social media; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/4430
• Institution: De La Salle University

People thrive in storytelling as a means ofsharing their experiences with one anotherand learning about the world through narratives. With the advancement of technology,social media platforms have become a common medium for people to recount and toshare stories about their life events anytimeand anywhere as they happen. Automatedstory generation systems can be designed toutilize this vast knowledge resource. In thispaper, we describe the approach we used insourcing storytelling knowledge from socialmedia posts, specifically Facebook, to extractevents that can be used to form a life story.We also describe briefly our strategies in classifying the posts based on their textual content to find snippets of life events. These postsare represented in an event model that is thenused by our story generator to produce a personal life story that chronicles travelling, dining and celebrating activities. Results fromuser evaluation showed that Facebook datacan provide enough information to generate aperson's life story which introduces him/herto others through the narration of some lifeevents that happened in his/her life. © 2018 by the authors.