Automating the Conversion of Natural Language Fiction to Multi-Modal 3D Animated Virtual Environments

August, 2008

Department of Computer Science, Rhodes University

Publications

Journal articles:

GLASS, K. AND BANGAY, S. 2009. A method for automatically creating 3D animated scenes from annotated fiction text.
In submission to: IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, 2009.

GLASS, K. AND BANGAY, S. 2007. Evaluating and improving morpho-syntactic classification over multiple corpora using pre-trained, "off-the-shelf", parts-of-speech tagging tools.
South African Computer Journal, 40:4-10, 2008. PDF

Conference Papers (peer reviewed):

GLASS, K. AND BANGAY, S. 2008c. Automating the creation of 3D animation from annotated fiction text.
In IADIS-CGV '08: Proceedings of the IADIS International conference on Computer Graphics and Visualization (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). International Association for Development of the Information Society, 3-10. PDF

GLASS, K., ALCOCK, B. AND BANGAY, S. 2007. Mechanisms for multimodality: taking fiction to another dimension.
In AFRIGRAPH '07: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computer graphics, virtual reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa (Grahamstown, South Africa). Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Press, New York, United States of America, 135-144. PDF

GLASS, K. AND BANGAY, S. 2007b. A naïve salience-based method for speaker identification in fiction books.
In PRASA '07: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa). 1-6. PDF

GLASS, K. AND BANGAY, S. 2007a. Constraint-based conversion of fiction text to a time-based graphical representation.
In SAICSIT '07: Proceedings of the 2007 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries (Fish River, South Africa). Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Press, New York, United States of America, 19-28. (Awarded best paper) PDF

GLASS, K. , MORKEL, C., AND BANGAY, S. 2006. Duplicating Road Patterns in South African Informal Settlements Using Procedural Techniques.
In AFRIGRAPH '06: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computer graphics, virtual reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa (Cape Town, South Africa). Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Press, New York, United States of America, 161-170. PDF

GLASS, K. AND BANGAY, S. 2006. Hierarchical rule generalisation for speaker identification in fiction books.
In SAICSIT '06: Proceedings of the 2006 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries (Cape Town, South Africa). Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Press, New York, United States of America, 31-40. PDF

GLASS, K. AND BANGAY, S. 2005. Evaluating parts-of-speech taggers for use in a text-to-scene conversion system.
In SAICSIT '05: Proceedings of the 2005 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries (White River, South Africa). Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Press, New York, United States of America, 20-28. PDF

Posters:

GLASS, K. AND BANGAY, S. 2005. Building 3D Virtual Environments Using Natural Language Descriptions.
In SAICSIT '05: Proceedings of the 2005 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries (White River, South Africa). PNG, abstract