Machine-Assisted Script Curation
This work addresses script curation for writers or researchers needing structured event representations, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing automation and collaboration concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of human-machine collaborative script authoring by introducing MASC, a system that automates parts of script creation, such as suggesting event types and linking to Wikidata, to assist writers in producing detailed scripts with sub-events, entities, and temporal sequencing.
We describe Machine-Aided Script Curator (MASC), a system for human-machine collaborative script authoring. Scripts produced with MASC include (1) English descriptions of sub-events that comprise a larger, complex event; (2) event types for each of those events; (3) a record of entities expected to participate in multiple sub-events; and (4) temporal sequencing between the sub-events. MASC automates portions of the script creation process with suggestions for event types, links to Wikidata, and sub-events that may have been forgotten. We illustrate how these automations are useful to the script writer with a few case-study scripts.