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The generation of a long story consisting of several thousand words is a sub-task in the field of long text generation~(LTG). Previous research has addressed this challenge through outline-based generation, which employs a multi-stage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ge Shi , Kaiyu Huang , Guochen Feng

Open-ended text generation tasks, such as dialogue generation and story completion, require models to generate a coherent continuation given limited preceding context. The open-ended nature of these tasks brings new challenges to the neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Qintong Li , Piji Li , Wei Bi , Zhaochun Ren , Yuxuan Lai , Lingpeng Kong

Text generation is a fundamental building block in natural language processing tasks. Existing sequential models performs autoregression directly over the text sequence and have difficulty generating long sentences of complex structures.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Qipeng Guo , Xipeng Qiu , Xiangyang Xue , Zheng Zhang

Building effective text generation systems requires three critical components: content selection, text planning, and surface realization, and traditionally they are tackled as separate problems. Recent all-in-one style neural generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xinyu Hua , Lu Wang

Automated storytelling has long captured the attention of researchers for the ubiquity of narratives in everyday life. However, it is challenging to maintain coherence and stay on-topic toward a specific ending when generating narratives…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Xiangyu Peng , Kaige Xie , Amal Alabdulkarim , Harshith Kayam , Samihan Dani , Mark O. Riedl

Story generation is an important natural language processing task that aims to generate coherent stories automatically. While the use of neural networks has proven effective in improving story generation, how to learn to generate an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Gang Chen , Yang Liu , Huanbo Luan , Meng Zhang , Qun Liu , Maosong Sun

Long-form story generation task aims to produce coherent and sufficiently lengthy text, essential for applications such as novel writingand interactive storytelling. However, existing methods, including LLMs, rely on rigid outlines or lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Qianyue Wang , Jinwu Hu , Zhengping Li , Yufeng Wang , daiyuan li , Yu Hu , Mingkui Tan

Previous work has demonstrated the effectiveness of planning for story generation exclusively in a monolingual setting focusing primarily on English. We consider whether planning brings advantages to automatic story generation across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Evgeniia Razumovskaia , Joshua Maynez , Annie Louis , Mirella Lapata , Shashi Narayan

The advent of large pre-trained generative language models has provided a common framework for AI story generation via sampling the model to create sequences that continue the story. However, sampling alone is insufficient for story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Amal Alabdulkarim , Winston Li , Lara J. Martin , Mark O. Riedl

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

We consider the task of data-to-text generation, which aims to create textual output from non-linguistic input. We focus on generating long-form text, i.e., documents with multiple paragraphs, and propose a neural model enhanced with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Ratish Puduppully , Yao Fu , Mirella Lapata

Generating an article automatically with computer program is a challenging task in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. In this paper, we target at essay generation, which takes as input a topic word in mind and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Bing Qin , Duyu Tang , Xinwei Geng , Dandan Ning , Jiahao Liu , Ting Liu

The main aim of this paper is to introduce automated generation of scripted dialogue as a worthwhile topic of investigation. In particular the fact that scripted dialogue involves two layers of communication, i.e., uni-directional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Paul Piwek , Kees van Deemter

We introduce STORY2GAME, a novel approach to using Large Language Models to generate text-based interactive fiction games that starts by generating a story, populates the world, and builds the code for actions in a game engine that enables…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Eric Zhou , Shreyas Basavatia , Moontashir Siam , Zexin Chen , Mark O. Riedl

Recent pre-trained language models have shown promising capabilities in generating fluent and realistic natural language text. However, generating multi-sentence text with global content planning has been a long-existing research question.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yinhong Liu , Yixuan Su , Ehsan Shareghi , Nigel Collier

Data-driven storytelling is a powerful method for conveying insights by combining narrative techniques with visualizations and text. These stories integrate visual aids, such as highlighted bars and lines in charts, along with textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Mohammed Saidul Islam , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Md Rizwan Parvez , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

We propose the task of outline-conditioned story generation: given an outline as a set of phrases that describe key characters and events to appear in a story, the task is to generate a coherent narrative that is consistent with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Hannah Rashkin , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yejin Choi , Jianfeng Gao

Long story generation remains a challenge for existing large language models (LLMs), primarily due to two main factors: (1) discourse coherence, which requires plot consistency, logical coherence, and completeness in the long-form…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Haotian Xia , Hao Peng , Yunjia Qi , Xiaozhi Wang , Bin Xu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Story visualization aims to generate a series of images that match the story described in texts, and it requires the generated images to satisfy high quality, alignment with the text description, and consistency in character identities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Wen Wang , Canyu Zhao , Hao Chen , Zhekai Chen , Kecheng Zheng , Chunhua Shen

Human writers often begin their stories with an overarching mental scene, where they envision the interactions between characters and their environment. Inspired by this creative process, we propose a novel approach to long-form story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zehao Chen , Rong Pan , Haoran Li