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Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate creative and engaging narratives from user-specified input, but maintaining coherence and emotional depth throughout these AI-generated stories remains a challenge. In this work, we propose SCORE, a…

Understanding when and why consumers engage with stories is crucial for content creators and platforms. While existing theories suggest that audience beliefs of what is going to happen should play an important role in engagement decisions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hortense Fong , George Gui

Large pre-trained neural language models (LM) have very powerful text generation capabilities. However, in practice, they are hard to control for creative purposes. We describe a Plug-and-Play controllable language generation framework,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Zhiyu Lin , Mark Riedl

What happens when a storyteller forgets its own story? Large Language Models (LLMs) can now generate narratives spanning tens of thousands of words, but they often fail to maintain consistency throughout. When generating long-form…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Junjie Li , Xinrui Guo , Yuhao Wu , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Hongzhi Li , Yutao Xie

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in story generation, but challenges remain in maintaining long-form coherence and effective, user-friendly control. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has proven effective in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhijun Pan , Antonios Andronis , Eva Hayek , Oscar AP Wilkinson , Ilya Lasy , Annette Parry , Guy Gadney , Tim J. Smith , Mick Grierson

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

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

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

Automated story generation is the problem of automatically selecting a sequence of events, actions, or words that can be told as a story. We seek to develop a system that can generate stories by learning everything it needs to know from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Lara J. Martin , Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Xinyu Wang , William Hancock , Shruti Singh , Brent Harrison , Mark O. Riedl

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

A storyboard is a sequence of images to illustrate a story containing multiple sentences, which has been a key process to create different story products. In this paper, we tackle a new multimedia task of automatic storyboard creation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Shizhe Chen , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Ruihua Song , Qin Jin , Pingping Lin , Xiaoyu Qi , Chunting Wang , Jin Zhou

Endowing the protagonist with a specific personality is essential for writing an engaging story. In this paper, we aim to control the protagonist's persona in story generation, i.e., generating a story from a leading context and a persona…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Zhexin Zhang , Jiaxin Wen , Jian Guan , Minlie Huang

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

Story generation aims to produce image sequences that depict coherent narratives while maintaining subject consistency across frames. Although existing methods have excelled in producing coherent and expressive stories, they remain largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jingyuan Yang , Rucong Chen , Weibin Luo , Hui Huang

A human author can write any length of story without losing coherence. Also, they always bring the story to a proper ending, an ability that current language models lack. In this work, we present the LongStory for coherent, complete, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kyeongman Park , Nakyeong Yang , Kyomin Jung

Recent generative models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating realistic and visually pleasing images grounded on textual prompts. Nevertheless, a significant challenge remains in applying these models for the more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Xiaoqian Shen , Mohamed Elhoseiny

While Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate fluent text, producing high-quality creative stories remains challenging. Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers a promising solution but faces two critical obstacles: designing reliable reward…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhaoyan Li , Hang Lei , Yujia Wang , Lanbo Liu , Hao Liu , Liang Yu

Characters are important in narratives. They move the plot forward, create emotional connections, and embody the story's themes. Visual storytelling methods focus more on the plot and events relating to it, without building the narrative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Danyang Liu , Mirella Lapata , Frank Keller

In this paper, we use large language models to generate personalized stories for language learners, using only the vocabulary they know. The generated texts are specifically written to teach the user new vocabulary by simply reading stories…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Wiktor Kamzela , Mateusz Lango , Ondrej Dusek

Large Language Models (LLMs) hold great potential for web-based interactive applications, including browser games, online education, and digital storytelling platforms. However, LLM-based conversational agents suffer from spatiotemporal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Geonwoo Bang , DongMyung Kim , Hayoung Oh