Narrative Group

The Narrative Group at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies pursues basic and applied research to advance technologies for automated storytelling and narrative understanding.

Core technologies include logical abduction reasoning with large-scale formalizations of commonsense knowledge, generative AI models for content creation, and the integration of neural, probabilistic, and symbolic reasoning methods.

Applications of these technologies include automated interpretation of movies and other sorts of time-series data, the rapid generation of simulated environments and training scenarios, and creative tools that enable small teams of filmmakers to create movies that rival those of much larger production crews.