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Recent studies suggest that very small language models (SLMs) can generate surprisingly coherent text when trained on simplified, child-directed corpora such as TinyStories. These findings have been interpreted as evidence that readability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ivan Lee , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

World building forms the foundation of any task that requires narrative intelligence. In this work, we focus on procedurally generating interactive fiction worlds---text-based worlds that players "see" and "talk to" using natural language.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Wesley Cheung , Dan Tu , William Broniec , Mark O. Riedl

We propose Sentence Level Recurrent Topic Model (SLRTM), a new topic model that assumes the generation of each word within a sentence to depend on both the topic of the sentence and the whole history of its preceding words in the sentence.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Fei Tian , Bin Gao , Di He , Tie-Yan Liu

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

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

Visual storytelling aims to generate a narrative paragraph from a sequence of images automatically. Existing approaches construct text description independently for each image and roughly concatenate them as a story, which leads to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Ruize Wang , Zhongyu Wei , Ying Cheng , Piji Li , Haijun Shan , Ji Zhang , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

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

Visual storytelling is the task of generating stories based on a sequence of images. Inspired by the recent works in neural generation focusing on controlling the form of text, this paper explores the idea of generating these stories in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Shrimai Prabhumoye , Khyathi Raghavi Chandu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Alan W Black

Narrative generation is an open-ended NLP task in which a model generates a story given a prompt. The task is similar to neural response generation for chatbots; however, innovations in response generation are often not applied to narrative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Alexandra DeLucia , Aaron Mueller , Xiang Lisa Li , João Sedoc

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

We present a literature survey on non-interactive computational story generation. The article starts with the presentation of requirements for creative systems, three types of models of creativity (computational, socio-cultural, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Luis Miguel Botelho

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

Although neural conversation models are effective in learning how to produce fluent responses, their primary challenge lies in knowing what to say to make the conversation contentful and non-vacuous. We present a new end-to-end approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Lianhui Qin , Michel Galley , Chris Brockett , Xiaodong Liu , Xiang Gao , Bill Dolan , Yejin Choi , Jianfeng Gao

Story comprehension requires a deep semantic understanding of the narrative, making it a challenging task. Inspired by previous studies on ROC Story Cloze Test, we propose a novel method, tracking various semantic aspects with external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Fei Liu , Trevor Cohn , Timothy Baldwin

Vocabulary learning support tools have widely exploited existing materials, e.g., stories or video clips, as contexts to help users memorize each target word. However, these tools could not provide a coherent context for any target words of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Zhenhui Peng , Xingbo Wang , Qiushi Han , Junkai Zhu , Xiaojuan Ma , Huamin Qu

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

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

Story composition is a challenging problem for machines and even for humans. We present a neural narrative generation system that interacts with humans to generate stories. Our system has different levels of human interaction, which enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Haining Feng , Nanyun Peng

Long-form narrative text generated from large language models manages a fluent impersonation of human writing, but only at the local sentence level, and lacks structure or global cohesion. We posit that many of the problems of story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Tuhin Chakrabarty , Ralph Weischedel , Nanyun Peng

Human communication is often executed in the form of a narrative, an account of connected events composed of characters, actions, and settings. A coherent narrative structure is therefore a requisite for a well-formulated narrative -- be it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Semi Min , Juyong Park