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Most work on neural natural language generation (NNLG) focus on controlling the content of the generated text. We experiment with controlling several stylistic aspects of the generated text, in addition to its content. The method is based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Jessica Ficler , Yoav Goldberg

Great novels create immersive worlds with rich character arcs, well-structured plots, and nuanced writing styles. However, current novel generation methods often rely on brief, simplistic story outlines and generate details using plain,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Xueran Han , Yuhan Liu , Mingzhe Li , Wei Liu , Sen Hu , Rui Yan , Zhiqiang Xu , Xiuying Chen

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

We introduce the Chronicle Challenge as an optional addition to the Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft. One of the foci of the overall competition is adaptive procedural content generation (PCG), an arguably under-explored problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Christoph Salge , Christian Guckelsberger , Michael Cerny Green , Rodrigo Canaan , Julian Togelius

Understanding narrative text requires capturing characters' motivations, goals, and mental states. This paper proposes an Entity-based Narrative Graph (ENG) to model the internal-states of characters in a story. We explicitly model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 I-Ta Lee , Maria Leonor Pacheco , Dan Goldwasser

Different users find different images generated for the same prompt desirable. This gives rise to personalized image generation which involves creating images aligned with an individual's visual preference. Current generative models are,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Sogand Salehi , Mahdi Shafiei , Teresa Yeo , Roman Bachmann , Amir Zamir

Character description generation is an important capability for narrative-focused applications such as summarization, story analysis, and character-driven simulations. However, generating accurate character descriptions from long-form…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Argyrios Papoudakis , Mirella Lapata , Frank Keller

Paraphrase generation has been widely used in various downstream tasks. Most tasks benefit mainly from high quality paraphrases, namely those that are semantically similar to, yet linguistically diverse from, the original sentence.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Elron Bandel , Ranit Aharonov , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Ilya Shnayderman , Noam Slonim , Liat Ein-Dor

Attribute-based Controlled Text Generation (CTG) refers to generating sentences that satisfy desirable attributes (e.g., emotions and topics). Existing works often utilize fine-tuning or resort to extra attribute classifiers, yet suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Kexin Yang , Dayiheng Liu , Wenqiang Lei , Baosong Yang , Mingfeng Xue , Boxing Chen , Jun Xie

This paper shows how to construct genre patterns, whose purpose is to guide interactive story composition in a way that enforces thematic consistency. To start the discussion we argue, based on previous seminal works, for the existence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Edirlei Soares de Lima , Margot M. E. Neggers , Antonio L. Furtado

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

Despite the remarkable progress of image captioning, existing captioners typically lack the controllable capability to generate desired image captions, e.g., describing the image in a rough or detailed manner, in a factual or emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Ning Wang , Jiahao Xie , Jihao Wu , Mingbo Jia , Linlin Li

Text generation in image-based platforms, particularly for music-related content, requires precise control over text styles and the incorporation of emotional expression. However, existing approaches often need help to control the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Yuelyu Ji , Yuheng Song , Wei Wang , Ruoyi Xu , Zhongqian Xie , Huiyun Liu

Intrinsic Motivation (IM) aims to train agents without external rewards, enabling useful behavior to emerge from the agent's interaction with its environment alone. However, the dominant IM approaches rely on information-theoretic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tristan Shah , Stas Tiomkin

Mixed-initiative dialogue tasks involve repeated exchanges of information and conversational control. Conversational agents gain control by generating responses that follow particular dialogue intents or strategies, prescribed by a policy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Maximillian Chen , Xiao Yu , Weiyan Shi , Urvi Awasthi , Zhou Yu

This paper proposes an explanation of the cognitive change that occurs as the creative process proceeds. During the initial, intuitive phase, each thought activates, and potentially retrieves information from, a large region containing many…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-09 Liane Gabora

Many tasks require flexibly modifying perception and behavior based on current goals. Humans can retrieve episodic memories from days to years ago, using them to contextualize and generalize behaviors across novel but structurally related…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yicong Zheng , Nora Wolf , Charan Ranganath , Randall C. O'Reilly , Kevin L. McKee

Self-triggered control, a well-documented technique for reducing the communication overhead while ensuring desired system performance, is gaining increasing popularity. However, existing methods for self-triggered control require explicit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Wenjie Liu , Jian Sun , Gang Wang , Francesco Bullo , Jie Chen

Controllable text generation is a growing field within natural language generation (NLG) that focuses on producing text that meets specific constraints in real-world applications. Previous approaches, such as plug-and-play controllers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Hao Wang , Lei Sha

This paper presents Dynamic Context Prompting/Programming (DCP/P), a novel framework for interacting with LLMs to generate graph-based content with a dynamic context window history. While there is an existing study utilizing LLMs to…