This paper describes the StoryIllustrator system, an application
that lets a user add images to a story. This system uses a large
database of pictures in the web to query images for the nouns
that are present in the story. Whenever the user is not pleased
with the images that are returned from the database, the StoryIllustrator
system facilitates the search of more images that are commonsensically
related to the query. Furthermore, the user can then share they
story by creating a web page of the story with the images s/he
selects, along with common sense knowledge tags as alternate text.