StoryIllustrator Alexandro Artola December 5 th, 2002

2 Outline Overview System Description Mechanism Demo Retrospective Questions

3 Overview ARIA Open Mind Stories.com  Genres: Action, Children’s, Comedy, Drama, Horror, etc. Yahoo! ® Picture Gallery

4 System Description Children’s Stories User selects images to include in a story  Input: Text file  Output: Web-page with associated images and CS knowledge

5 Mechanism Parse a text file to get nouns  MontyTagger & Lemmatiser Use stop-nouns list to get rid of abstract nouns Select nouns to:  Search images  Traverse the “Semantic Net” For each noun:  Select image  Search for CS-related images Post web-page  With images and CS tags

6 Demo “Deilia’s North Pole Adventure” by: Its Wrilly Winter Here

7 What Went Well Design  Changed over time Implementation  Python  Hugo and Push’s tools! MontyTagger, Lemmatiser & OMCSNet  Other packages PyEdit & HTMLgen (from Programming Python)

8 What Was Difficult Design Issues  Limitations Clean the “Semantic Net” Not able to use WALI Restriction to use nouns

9 Possible Extensions Include image descriptions Recursive CS image search Use WordNet instead of stop-nouns list Analogous concepts

10 Questions?

11 Try the System! Python 2.2  python.org System  ~/mit/aartola/Public/MAS.964/ storyillustrator.zip SemanticNet semanticnet.txt