Degree
Master of Science
Program
Computer Science
Supervisor
Michael Katchabaw
Abstract
Despite advancements in graphics, physics, and artificial intelligence, modern video games are still lacking in believable dialogue generation. The more complex and interactive stories in modern games may allow the player to experience different paths in dialogue trees, but such trees are still required to be manually created by authors. Recently, there has been research on methods of creating emergent believable behaviour, but these are lacking true dialogue construction capabilities. Because the mapping of natural language to meaningful computational representations (logical forms) is a difficult problem, an important first step may be to develop a means of representing in-game dialogue as logical expressions. This thesis introduces and describes a system for representing dialogue as first-order logic predicates, demonstrates its equivalence with current dialogue authoring techniques, and shows how this representation is more dynamic and flexible.
Recommended Citation
Wheeler, Kaylen FJ, "Representing Game Dialogue as Expressions in First-Order Logic" (2013). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 1279.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/1279