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We propose a simple and effective modeling framework for controlled generation of multiple, diverse outputs. We focus on the setting of generating the next sentence of a story given its context. As controllable dimensions, we consider…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Lifu Tu , Xiaoan Ding , Dong Yu , Kevin Gimpel

Existing dialog datasets contain a sequence of utterances and responses without any explicit background knowledge associated with them. This has resulted in the development of models which treat conversation as a sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Nikita Moghe , Siddhartha Arora , Suman Banerjee , Mitesh M. Khapra

This paper investigates the capability of LLMs in storytelling, focusing on narrative development and plot progression. We introduce a novel computational framework to analyze narratives through three discourse-level aspects: i) story arcs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yufei Tian , Tenghao Huang , Miri Liu , Derek Jiang , Alexander Spangher , Muhao Chen , Jonathan May , Nanyun Peng

Story generation is a challenging task, which demands to maintain consistency of the plots and characters throughout the story. Previous works have shown that GPT2, a large-scale language model, has achieved good performance on story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Wei Wang , Piji Li , Hai-Tao Zheng

Recent advances in neural network-based generative modeling have reignited the hopes in having computer systems capable of seamlessly conversing with humans and able to understand natural language. Neural architectures have been employed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Cristina Garbacea , Qiaozhu Mei

Large language models optimized for instruction following and agentic tasks remain poorly aligned with the requirements of high-quality creative writing. Fiction frequently depends on behaviors that assistant-tuned models are explicitly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jan Zierstek , Matteo Batelic , Maya Medjad , Tim Schönenberger

A significant body of research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has focused on generating stories automatically, either based on prior story plots or input images. However, literature has little to say about how users would receive and use…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Ting-Yao Hsu , Yen-Chia Hsu , Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang

Automated story generation has been one of the long-standing challenges in NLP. Among all dimensions of stories, suspense is very common in human-written stories but relatively under-explored in AI-generated stories. While recent advances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Kaige Xie , Mark Riedl

New systems employ Machine Learning to sift through large knowledge sources, creating flexible Large Language Models. These models discern context and predict sequential information in various communication forms. Generative AI, leveraging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ted Selker

Recently, neural models have been proposed for headline generation by learning to map documents to headlines with recurrent neural networks. Nevertheless, as traditional neural network utilizes maximum likelihood estimation for parameter…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Ayana , Shiqi Shen , Yu Zhao , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Generative models reliant on sequential autoregression have been at the forefront of language generation for an extensive period, particularly following the introduction of widely acclaimed transformers. Despite its excellent performance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yaguang Li , Xin Chen

Neural network based approaches to automated story plot generation attempt to learn how to generate novel plots from a corpus of natural language plot summaries. Prior work has shown that a semantic abstraction of sentences called events…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Ethan Tien , Wesley Cheung , Zhaochen Luo , William Ma , Lara J. Martin , Mark O. Riedl

In real world domains, most graphs naturally exhibit a hierarchical structure. However, data-driven graph generation is yet to effectively capture such structures. To address this, we propose a novel approach that recursively generates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Mahdi Karami , Jun Luo

We model product reviews to generate comparative responses consisting of positive and negative experiences regarding the product. Specifically, we generate a single-sentence, comparative response from a given positive and a negative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Saurabh Jain , Yisong Miao , Min-Yen Kan

Personalization is critical for improving user experience in interactive writing and educational applications, yet remains understudied in story generation. We study the task of personalizing story generation, where our goal is to mimic an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Nischal Ashok Kumar , Chau Minh Pham , Mohit Iyyer , Andrew Lan

Human writers often bookend their writing with ending sentences that relate back to the beginning sentences in order to compose a satisfying narrative that "closes the loop." Motivated by this observation, we propose RENarGen, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Anneliese Brei , Chao Zhao , Snigdha Chaturvedi

Traditionally, text generation models take in a sequence of text as input, and iteratively generate the next most probable word using pre-trained parameters. In this work, we propose the architecture to use images instead of text as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Jing Jiang

Natural Language Inference is an important task for Natural Language Understanding. It is concerned with classifying the logical relation between two sentences. In this paper, we propose several text generative neural networks for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Janez Starc , Dunja Mladenić

Generating explanations for neural networks has become crucial for their applications in real-world with respect to reliability and trustworthiness. In natural language processing, existing methods usually provide important features which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Hanjie Chen , Guangtao Zheng , Yangfeng Ji

Existing Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems are weak AI systems and exhibit limited capabilities when language generation tasks demand higher levels of creativity, originality and brevity. Effective solutions or, at least evaluations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Parag Jain , Priyanka Agrawal , Abhijit Mishra , Mohak Sukhwani , Anirban Laha , Karthik Sankaranarayanan