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NATURAL LANGUAGE
GENERATION
MEDIA
RETRIEVAL
TO
MULTI-
MEDIA
FRONT
END
STORYBOARD
STORY EXPERTS
STORY EXPERTS
biased event
RHETORICAL GOAL TREES
base goal
leaf goals
KNOWLEDGE BASE
event
event
event
event
event
event
Figure 2.
Te rmina l Time
architecture.
The knowledge base consists of higher order predicate statements about
historical events, definitions of ontological entities used in the historical event
descriptions, and inference rules.
Te rmi na l Time
's ontology is based on the
Upper Cyc Ontology, the top 3000 most general terms in the Cyc ontology
(Lenat 1995). The upper ontology provides a useful set of distinctions in terms
of which the more specific ontology needed by
Te rmi na l Time
can be de-
fined. Figure 3 shows the representation of the historical event “The Giordano
Bruno Story.”
