Applied Artificial Intelligence Technology for Interactive Story Editing to Support Natural Language Generation (NLG)

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can be used in combination with composable communication goal statements and an ontology to facilitate a user's ability to quickly structure story outlines in a manner usable by an NLG narrative generation system without any need for the user to directly author computer code. This AI technology permits NLG systems to determine the appropriate content for inclusion in a narrative story about a data set in a manner that will satisfy a desired communication goal. The AI technology also permits story edits to cause corresponding updates to an ontology and/or story outline used to support narrative generation.