MEXICA:
A Computer
Model of Creativity in Writing
MEXICA is a computer model that produces frameworks for short stories based on the engagement-reflection cognitive account of writing.
During engagement MEXICA generates material guided by content and rhetorical constraints, avoiding the use of explicit goals or story-structure information.
During reflection the system breaks impasses, evaluates the novelty and interestingness of the story in progress and verifies that coherence requirements are satisfied.
In this way, MEXICA complements and extends those models of computerised story-telling based on traditional problem-solving techniques where explicit goals drive the generation of stories.
This photograph shows a jaguar knight and was taken at the National Museum of Anthropology in México City.