Tolkien: An Event Based Storytelling System
Summary: Event-based storytelling over a large multimodal eventbase for time-ordered stories from heterogeneous data. A two-step pipeline retrieves relevant events and filters them by viewer preferences using an interestingness measure, demonstrated in Tolkien via coherent multi-query story construction. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Arjun Satish (University of California Irvine)
- 2. Ramesh Jain (University of California Irvine)
- 3. Amarnath Gupta (University of California San Diego)
BibTeX Citation
@article{satish_vldb09,
title = {{Tolkien: An Event Based Storytelling System}},
author = {Satish, Arjun and Jain, Ramesh and Gupta, Amarnath},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '09},
doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687610},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687610},
year = {2009}
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