A Generic Interface for Communication between Story Understanding Systems and Knowledge Bases Heather D. Pfeiffer*, Nemecio R. Chavez, Jr.*, Roger T. Hartley, New Mexico State University Presented is a story understanding approach that uses world knowledge independent of the story at hand and independent of the structure or organization of the knowledge representation (KR). The world knowledge is stored and processed via a knowledge base (KB). This approach has been developed and tested, with "The Crow and The Pitcher" text story, using a prototype story understanding system and two different KBs. Each knowledge base has different KR data structures and processing operations. We show that the generic interface between the story understanding system and each KB works equally well, and provides a platform where the relative efficiencies can be compared for the storage and retrieval operations. This poster discusses the outcome of comparing the two knowledge bases using this generic interface for story understanding on the given text passage, and suggests possible larger story problems for testing.