Project description Challenging current Thinking Show the project objective Hide the project objective The MUSE project will introduce a new way of exploring and understanding information by "bringing text to life" through 3D interactive storytelling. Taking as input natural language text like children's stories or medical patient education materials, MUSE will process the natural language, translate it into formal knowledge that represents the actions, actors, plots and surrounding world, and then render these as virtual 3D worlds in which the user can explore the text through interaction, re-enactment and guided game play.To enable such a system, MUSE will make targeted advances in natural language processing that enable the translation of natural language text to the necessary knowledge representations, as well as targeted advances in the action representation and story planning necessary for interactive storytelling. In natural language processing, MUSE will develop new techniques for finding explicit action structures in text and combining them with implicit action structures inferred from the context based on probabilistic models of translation and automatic methods for acquiring world knowledge from large corpora. In interactive storytelling, MUSE will develop action and object representations that bridge the gap between natural language and virtual worlds, and will create advanced techniques for planning virtual world stories given inconsistent and incomplete information.The proposed methodology will be evaluated and showcased on two scenarios: one for creating immersive children's stories from text and one for allowing medical patients to interact with patient education materials. Comparable to the invention of symbolic writing systems several millennia ago, MUSE contributes to a novel symbolic system communicating natural language utterances. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencenatural language processingnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesknowledge engineering Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2011.9.1 - Challenging current Thinking Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2011-C See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Address Oude markt 13 3000 Leuven Belgium See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Vlaams-Brabant Arr. Leuven Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Tine Heylen (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all HAUTE AUTORITE DE SANTE France EU contribution € 168 400,00 Address Avenue du stade de france 5 93218 Saint denis la plaine cedex See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Seine-Saint-Denis Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Gersende Georg (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN Netherlands EU contribution € 347 289,00 Address Rapenburg 70 2311 EZ Leiden See on map Region West-Nederland Zuid-Holland Agglomeratie Leiden en Bollenstreek Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Menno Tuurenhout (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN Slovenia EU contribution € 354 337,00 Address Jamova 39 1000 Ljubljana See on map Region Slovenija Zahodna Slovenija Osrednjeslovenska Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Jadran Lenarcic (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY United Kingdom EU contribution € 446 100,00 Address Borough road TS1 3BA Middlesbrough See on map Region North East (England) Tees Valley and Durham South Teesside Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Marc Cavazza (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
