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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

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

Creating a cast of characters by attending to their relational dynamics is a critical aspect of most long-form storywriting. However, our formative study (N=14) reveals that writers struggle to envision new characters that could influence…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Syemin Park , Soobin Park , Youn-kyung Lim

We introduce the Attentive Unsupervised Text (W)riter (AUTR), which is a word level generative model for natural language. It uses a recurrent neural network with a dynamic attention and canvas memory mechanism to iteratively construct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Harshil Shah , Bowen Zheng , David Barber

Story generation is a task that aims to automatically produce multiple sentences to make up a meaningful story. This task is challenging because it requires high-level understanding of semantic meaning of sentences and causality of story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Hong Chen , Raphael Shu , Hiroya Takamura , Hideki Nakayama

We address the problem of interactive text-to-image (T2I) generation, designing a reinforcement learning (RL) agent which iteratively improves a set of generated images for a user through a sequence of prompt expansions. Using human raters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ofir Nabati , Guy Tennenholtz , ChihWei Hsu , Moonkyung Ryu , Deepak Ramachandran , Yinlam Chow , Xiang Li , Craig Boutilier

The natural language generation (NLG) component of a spoken dialogue system (SDS) usually needs a substantial amount of handcrafting or a well-labeled dataset to be trained on. These limitations add significantly to development costs and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-10 Tsung-Hsien Wen , Milica Gasic , Dongho Kim , Nikola Mrksic , Pei-Hao Su , David Vandyke , Steve Young

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 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

Conditional story generation and contextual text continuation have become increasingly popular topics in NLP community. Existing models are often prone to output paragraphs of texts that gradually diverge from the given prompt. Although the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Ruixiao Sun , Jie Yang , Mehrdad Yousefzadeh

Large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent dialogue, but prior works lack situational grounding, dynamic strategy control, and evaluation aligned with clinical standards in motivational interviewing (MI). We introduce StoryMI, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Qingyu Meng , Min Chen , Dingming Liu , Yifan Mo , Yue Su , Xin Sun , Koen Hindriks , Jiahuan Pei

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

Human conversation involves language, speech, and visual cues, with each medium providing complementary information. For instance, speech conveys a vibe or tone not fully captured by text alone. While multimodal LLMs focus on generating…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Taesoo Kim , Yongsik Jo , Hyunmin Song , Taehwan Kim

Text generation aims to produce human-like natural language output for down-stream tasks. It covers a wide range of applications like machine translation, document summarization, dialogue generation and so on. Recently deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Xiaoyu Shen

The recent advances in Large Language Model's generation and reasoning capabilities present an opportunity to develop truly conversational recommendation systems. However, effectively integrating recommender system knowledge into LLMs for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Krishna Sayana , Raghavendra Vasudeva , Yuri Vasilevski , Kun Su , Liam Hebert , James Pine , Hubert Pham , Ambarish Jash , Sukhdeep Sodhi

With the availability of massive general-domain dialogue data, pre-trained dialogue generation appears to be super appealing to transfer knowledge from the general domain to downstream applications. In most existing work, such transferable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xueliang Zhao , Lemao Liu , Tingchen Fu , Shuming Shi , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

In this paper, we propose Latent Relation Language Models (LRLMs), a class of language models that parameterizes the joint distribution over the words in a document and the entities that occur therein via knowledge graph relations. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Hiroaki Hayashi , Zecong Hu , Chenyan Xiong , Graham Neubig

Algorithms for text-generation in dialogue can be misguided. For example, in task-oriented settings, reinforcement learning that optimizes only task-success can lead to abysmal lexical diversity. We hypothesize this is due to poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Anthony Sicilia , Malihe Alikhani

To enhance the quality of generated stories, recent story generation models have been investigating the utilization of higher-level attributes like plots or commonsense knowledge. The application of prompt-based learning with large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zhuohan Xie , Trevor Cohn , Jey Han Lau

Evaluating the creative capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in complex tasks often requires human assessments that are difficult to scale. We introduce a novel, scalable methodology for evaluating LLM story generation by analyzing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Hiroshi Nonaka , K. E. Perry