Many of the stories at the core of narrative entertainment involve a number of plot lines that combine to give them interest. The present paper sets out to solve the problem of how several different plot lines, each one of them complete in its own sense, can be combined into a single linear sequence that works reasonably well as a plot. Starting from a brief review of how existing storytelling systems address the task, a representation for plots and plot templates is proposed that allows the combination of several subplots into a single-plot line. Four strategies for weaving plots are proposed, two taken from literary studies and two computational baselines, and a formative evaluation of a set of stories produced by these solutions is presented. Finally, open issues, promising avenues of future work and the relation to previous work, are discussed.

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探索将完整情节组合成多情节故事的基线

许多处于叙事娱乐核心的故事都涉及许多情节线，这些情节线结合起来给他们带来了兴趣。本论文着手解决几个不同的情节线（每条情节在其自身意义上是完整的）如何组合成一个可以作为情节合理运作的单一线性序列的问题。从对现有讲故事系统如何解决任务的简要回顾开始，提出了情节和情节模板的表示，允许将几个子情节组合成一条情节线。提出了四种编织情节的策略，其中两种来自文学研究和两种计算基线，并提出了对这些解决方案产生的一组故事的形成性评估。最后，讨论了未解决的问题、未来工作的有希望的途径以及与以前工作的关系。