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Story generation, which aims to generate a long and coherent story automatically based on the title or an input sentence, is an important research area in the field of natural language generation. There is relatively little work on story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Feifei Xu , Xinpeng Wang , Yunpu Ma , Volker Tresp , Yuyi Wang , Shanlin Zhou , Haizhou Du

Stories generated with neural language models have shown promise in grammatical and stylistic consistency. However, the generated stories are still lacking in common sense reasoning, e.g., they often contain sentences deprived of world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Huanru Henry Mao , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Julian McAuley , Garrison W. Cottrell

Recent advancements in the field of large language models have made it possible to use language models for advanced reasoning. In this paper we leverage this ability for designing complex project plans based only on knowing the current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Martin Schroder

Standard sequential generation methods assume a pre-specified generation order, such as text generation methods which generate words from left to right. In this work, we propose a framework for training models of text generation that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Sean Welleck , Kianté Brantley , Hal Daumé , Kyunghyun Cho

Human writers plan, then write. For large language models (LLMs) to play a role in longer-form article generation, we must understand the planning steps humans make before writing. We explore one kind of planning, source-selection in news,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Alexander Spangher , James Youn , Matt DeButts , Nanyun Peng , Emilio Ferrara , Jonathan May

Recent developments in neural networks have led to the advance in data-to-text generation. However, the lack of ability of neural models to control the structure of generated output can be limiting in certain real-world applications. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Yixuan Su , David Vandyke , Sihui Wang , Yimai Fang , Nigel Collier

Humans often rely on underlying structural patterns-schemas-to create, whether by writing stories, designing software, or composing music. Schemas help organize ideas and guide exploration, but they are often difficult to discover and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Sitong Wang

Storytelling is an open-ended task that entails creative thinking and requires a constant flow of ideas. Natural language generation (NLG) for storytelling is especially challenging because it requires the generated text to follow an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Eden Bensaid , Mauro Martino , Benjamin Hoover , Hendrik Strobelt

Autonomous scientific discovery with large language model (LLM)-based agents has recently made substantial progress, demonstrating the ability to automate end-to-end research workflows. However, existing systems largely rely on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Tengyue Xu , Zhuoyang Qian , Gaoge Liu , Li Ling , Zhentao Zhang , Biao Wu , Shuo Zhang , Ke Lu , Wei Shi , Ziqi Wang , Zheng Feng , Yan Luo , Shu Xu , Yongjin Chen , Zhibo Feng , Zhuo Chen , Bruce Yuan , Harry Wang , Kris Chen

Story generation has been a prominent application of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, understanding LLMs' ability to produce high-quality stories remains limited due to challenges in automatic evaluation methods and the high cost and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yi Wang , Max Kreminski

Automated planning remains one of the most general paradigms in Artificial Intelligence, providing means of solving problems coming from a wide variety of domains. One of the key factors restricting the applicability of planning is its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Pawel Gomoluch , Dalal Alrajeh , Alessandra Russo , Antonio Bucchiarone

Generative models have recently exhibited exceptional capabilities in text-to-image generation, but still struggle to generate image sequences coherently. In this work, we focus on a novel, yet challenging task of generating a coherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Chang Liu , Haoning Wu , Yujie Zhong , Xiaoyun Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

The automatic generation of decision trees based on off-line reasoning on models of a domain is a reasonable compromise between the advantages of using a model-based approach in technical domains and the constraints imposed by embedded…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-28 L. Console , C. Picardi , D. Theseider Duprè

Lay summaries for scientific documents typically include explanations to help readers grasp sophisticated concepts or arguments. However, current automatic summarization methods do not explicitly model explanations, which makes it difficult…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Dongqi Liu , Xi Yu , Vera Demberg , Mirella Lapata

Automatic question generation is one of the most challenging tasks of Natural Language Processing. It requires "bidirectional" language processing: firstly, the system has to understand the input text (Natural Language Understanding) and it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Miroslav Blšták , Viera Rozinajová

This paper presents a machine learning approach to discourse planning in natural language generation. More specifically, we address the problem of learning the most natural ordering of facts in discourse plans for a specific domain. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki , Ion Androutsopoulos

In recent years, narrative visualization has gained much attention. Researchers have proposed different design spaces for various narrative visualization genres and scenarios to facilitate the creation process. As users' needs grow and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Qing Chen , Shixiong Cao , Jiazhe Wang , Nan Cao

Narrative story generation is a challenging problem because it demands the generated sentences with tight semantic connections, which has not been well studied by most existing generative models. To address this problem, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Jingjing Xu , Xuancheng Ren , Yi Zhang , Qi Zeng , Xiaoyan Cai , Xu Sun

Automated planning traditionally assumes that all aspects of a planning task (initial state, goals, and available actions) are fully specified in advance, an approach well-suited to domains with fixed rules and deterministic execution.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Alberto Pozanco , Daniel Borrajo , Manuela Veloso

Generating domain-specific content using small language models poses challenges, especially when dealing with multiple distinct datasets with minimal overlap. In this study, we explore methods to enable a small language model to produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Ankit Maloo , Abhinav Garg