For the last two months, we’ve been reading and discussing narrative generation and NLP papers in preparation for our trip. Today, we finally got to present our proposals for summer work to Dr. Gonzalez, our UCF adviser, and to Dr. Knauf, our adviser at TU Ilmenau, who is currently visiting Florida for a conference. Andres and Lucas presented their plans for using Simple NLG to generate text for the stories, and Vera and I presented our plans for infrastructure changes and a story generation algorithm.

Next week, Vera and I will be at the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society conference, where we’ll get to see last year’s group present their paper (we’re sure they’ll do a great job!). On the 29th, we’ll finally leave for Germany. I couldn’t be more excited!