Narrative Science Inc.

Northwestern University

Perfect Market, Inc.

Salesforce, Inc.

Pulsepoint, Inc.

Allvoices, Inc.

First Look Networks LLC

Lawrence A Birnbaum

Kristian J Hammond

Nathan Drew Nichols

Jerome Louis Budzik

Andrew R Paley

Nicholas D Allen

John R Templon

Sanjay Chand Sood

Daniel Joseph Platt

Alexander Rudolf Sippel

Mauro Eduardo Ignacio Mujica-Parodi, Iii

Michael Justin Smathers

Maia Lewis Meza

Matthew Lloyd Trahan

Lawrence E Adams

Jonathan Alden Drake

Peter Horace Sherman

Andrew Joseph Crossen

Shingo Murata

Pia Opulencia

Amra Q Tareen

Erik Sundelof

Bo He

Kathryn McCarthy Hughes

Kevin Livingston

Mark Dredze

Leonard Chen

Patrick G Ryan

Kalyan R Madhavan

W Thomas C Bergerson

Shawn O'Banion

Disclosed herein are example embodiments that describe how a narrative generation techniques can be used in connection with data visualization tools to automatically generate narratives that explain the information conveyed by a visualization of a data set. In example embodiments, new data structures and artificial intelligence (AI) logic can be used by narrative generation software to map different types of visualizations to different types of story configurations that will drive how narrative text is generated by the narrative generation software.

Applied artificial intelligence technology for automatically generating narratives from visualization data

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can be used process natural language statements to facilitate the automated generation of narratives about data sets that achieve a desired communication goal without any need for a user to directly author computer code. This AI technology permits NLG systems to determine the appropriate content for inclusion in the narrative in a manner that will satisfy the desired communication goal.

Applied artificial intelligence technology for performing natural language generation (NLG) using composable communication goals and ontologies to generate narrative stories

Artificial intelligence methods and systems for triggering the generation of narratives are disclosed. Specific embodiments relate to real-time evaluation and automated generation of narrative stories based on received data. For example, data can be tested against data representative of a plurality of story angles to determine whether a narrative story incorporating one or more such story angles is to be automatically generated.

Method and apparatus for triggering the automatic generation of narratives

The exemplary embodiments described herein are related to techniques for automatically generating narratives about data based on communication goal data structures that are associated with configurable content blocks. The use of such communication goal data structures facilitates modes of operation whereby narratives can be generated in real-time and/or interactive manners.

Automatic generation of narratives from data using communication goals and narrative analytics

The subject invention functions to use available data and information to automatically create narrative stories that describes domain events, circumstances and/or entities in a comprehensible and compelling and audience customized, manner. Computer executable instructions provide for generating a narrative story using standard and uniform structures and data for receiving domain related data and a story specification, parsing the story specification to provide constituent components, transforming the constituent components into executable code, instantiating content blocks having at least one feature for the domain according to the story specification and rendering the narrative story using the constituent components specified by the content blocks.

Configurable and portable system for generating narratives

A system and method for automatically generating a narrative story receives data and information pertaining to a domain event. The received data and information and/or one or more derived features are then used to identify a plurality of angles for the narrative story. The plurality of angles is then filtered, for example through use of parameters that specify a focus for the narrative story, length of the narrative story, etc. Points associated with the filtered plurality of angles are then assembled and the narrative story is rendered using the filtered plurality of angles and the assembled points.

System and method for using data and angles to automatically generate a narrative story

Method and Apparatus for Triggering the Automatic Generation of Narratives Artificial intelligence methods and systems for triggering the generation of narratives are disclosed. Specific embodiments relate to real-time evaluation and automated generation of narrative stories based on received data. For example, data can be tested against data representative of a plurality of story angles to determine whether a narrative story incorporating one or more such story angles is to be automatically generated.

Example embodiments are disclosed where a narrative generation platform is integrated with a conversational interface such as a Chatbot to support interactive and dynamic narrative generation in response to speech inputs from users. Such a system can be further integrated with a visualization platform to allow the speech input through the conversational interface to interactively and dynamically focus and control visualizations and/or narratives that accompany the visualizations.

Interactive and conversational data exploration

To provide users with more flexibility for focusing and controlling visualizations of data, the inventors disclose new data structures and artificial intelligence logic that can be utilized in conjunction with notional specifications of focus criteria for visualizations. In an example embodiment, the inventors disclose technology that can be used to generate data structures that represent notional characteristics of the visualization data which in turn can be tied to specific elements of the visualization data to support interactive focusing of visualizations in notional terms that correspond to interesting aspects of the data. This allows a user to specify using notional criteria how a visualization should be focused on specific elements without needing to know in advance what those specific elements are.

Applied artificial intelligence technology for interactively using narrative analytics to focus and control visualizations of data

Applied artificial intelligence technology for using narrative analytics to automatically generate narratives from visualization data

Applied artificial intelligence technology for using narrative analytics to automatically generate narratives from line charts

Applied artificial intelligence technology for using narrative analytics to automatically generate narratives from bar charts

Narrative generation techniques can be used in connection with data visualization tools to automatically generate narratives that explain the information conveyed by a visualization of a data set. In example embodiments, new data structures and artificial intelligence (AI) logic can be used by narrative generation software to map different types of visualizations to different types of story configurations that will drive how narrative text is generated by the narrative generation software.

Applied artificial intelligence technology for using narrative analytics to interactively generate narratives from visualization data

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Evanston, IL, United States of America

Lawrence A Birnbaum