We describe Machine-Aided Script Curator (MASC), a system for human-machine collaborative script authoring. Scripts produced with MASC include (1) English descriptions of sub-events that comprise a larger, complex event; (2) event types for each of those events; (3) a record of entities expected to participate in multiple sub-events; and (4) temporal sequencing between the sub-events. MASC automates portions of the script creation process with suggestions for event types, links to Wikidata, and sub-events that may have been forgotten. We illustrate how these automations are useful to the script writer with a few case-study scripts.
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@article{arxiv.2101.05400,
title = {Machine-Assisted Script Curation},
author = {Manuel R. Ciosici and Joseph Cummings and Mitchell DeHaven and Alex Hedges and Yash Kankanampati and Dong-Ho Lee and Ralph Weischedel and Marjorie Freedman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.05400},
year = {2026}
}