Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can be used in combination with composable communication goal statements 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 attribute structures within an ontology can include an explicit model for the subject attribute, regardless of whether that model is used to compute the value of the subject attribute itself. This explicit model can then be leveraged to support an investigation of drivers of the value for the subject attribute. Narrative analytics that perform driver analysis can then be used to support narrative generation for communication goals relating to explanations, predictions, recommendations, and the like.
Applied artificial intelligence technology for narrative generation based on smart attributes