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)

Paper ID: 9963
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
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