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Information overload and misinformation create significant challenges in extracting meaningful narratives from large news collections. This paper defines the nascent field of Interactive Narrative Analytics (INA), which combines…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Brian Keith

Storytelling aims to generate reasonable and vivid narratives based on an ordered image stream. The fidelity to the image story theme and the divergence of story plots attract readers to keep reading. Previous works iteratively improved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Chuanqi Zang , Jiji Tang , Rongsheng Zhang , Zeng Zhao , Tangjie Lv , Mingtao Pei , Wei Liang

Neural video game simulators emerged as powerful tools to generate and edit videos. Their idea is to represent games as the evolution of an environment's state driven by the actions of its agents. While such a paradigm enables users to play…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Willi Menapace , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Stéphane Lathuilière , Panos Achlioptas , Vladislav Golyanik , Sergey Tulyakov , Elisa Ricci

We present a work in progress that explores using a Large Language Model (LLM) as a design material for an interactive museum installation. LLMs offer the possibility of creating chatbots that can facilitate dynamic and human-like…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Maria Padilla Engstrøm , Anders Sundnes Løvlie

We introduce GamePlot, an LLM-powered assistant that supports game designers in crafting immersive narratives for turn-based games, and allows them to test these games through a collaborative game play and refine the plot throughout the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Seyed Hossein Alavi , Weijia Xu , Nebojsa Jojic , Daniel Kennett , Raymond T. Ng , Sudha Rao , Haiyan Zhang , Bill Dolan , Vered Shwartz

This work focuses on studying players behaviour in interactive narratives with the aim to simulate their choices. Besides sub-optimal player behaviour due to limited knowledge about the environment, the difference in each player's style and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Jessica Rivera-Villicana , Fabio Zambetta , James Harland , Marsha Berry

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as formidable instruments capable of comprehending and producing human-like text. This paper explores the potential of LLMs, to shape user perspectives and subsequently influence their decisions on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ganesh Prasath Ramani , Shirish Karande , Santhosh V , Yash Bhatia

This paper explores conversational self-play with LLMs as a scalable approach for analyzing and exploring psychotherapy approaches, evaluating how well AI-generated therapeutic dialogues align with established modalities.

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Onno P Kampman , Michael Xing , Charmaine Lim , Ahmad Ishqi Jabir , Ryan Louie , Jimmy Lee , Robert JT Morris

We are living in an era of "big literature", where the volume of digital scientific publications is growing exponentially. While offering new opportunities, this also poses challenges for understanding literature landscapes, as traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Mingyu Huang , Shasha Zhou , Yuxuan Chen , Ke Li

Language agents have shown impressive problem-solving skills within defined settings and brief timelines. Yet, with the ever-evolving complexities of open-world simulations, there's a pressing need for agents that can flexibly adapt to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Ming Yan , Ruihao Li , Hao Zhang , Hao Wang , Zhilan Yang , Ji Yan

The present study proposes LitStoryTeller, an interactive system for visually exploring the semantic structure of a scientific article. We demonstrate how LitStoryTeller could be used to answer some of the most fundamental research…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Qing Ping , Chaomei Chen

In this paper, we present a new modality for intelligent interactive narratives within the theatre domain. We discuss the possibilities of using an intelligent agent that serves as a drama manager and as an actor that plays a character…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Nic Velissaris , Jessica Rivera-Villicana

Studying characters plays a vital role in computationally representing and interpreting narratives. Unlike previous work, which has focused on inferring character roles, we focus on the problem of modeling their relationships. Rather than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Snigdha Chaturvedi , Shashank Srivastava , Hal Daume , Chris Dyer

Robotic telepresence enables users to navigate and experience remote environments. However, effective navigation and situational awareness depend on users' prior knowledge of the environment, limiting the usefulness of these systems for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yaxin Hu , Arissa J. Sato , Jingxin Du , Chenming Ye , Anjun Zhu , Pragathi Praveena , Bilge Mutlu

Digital storytelling, essential in entertainment, education, and marketing, faces challenges in production scalability and flexibility. The StoryAgent framework, introduced in this paper, utilizes Large Language Models and generative tools…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Samuel S. Sohn , Danrui Li , Sen Zhang , Che-Jui Chang , Mubbasir Kapadia

Relation extraction is a crucial task in natural language processing, with broad applications in knowledge graph construction and literary analysis. However, the complex context and implicit expressions in novel texts pose significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yuchen Yan , Hanjie Zhao , Senbin Zhu , Hongde Liu , Zhihong Zhang , Yuxiang Jia

Understanding the behavior of large language models (LLMs) is crucial for ensuring their safe and reliable use. However, existing explainable AI (XAI) methods for LLMs primarily rely on word-level explanations, which are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Furui Cheng , Vilém Zouhar , Robin Shing Moon Chan , Daniel Fürst , Hendrik Strobelt , Mennatallah El-Assady

We introduce StorySim, a programmable framework for synthetically generating stories to evaluate the theory of mind (ToM) and world modeling (WM) capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Unlike prior benchmarks that may suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Nathaniel Getachew , Abulhair Saparov

Reward design for reinforcement learning agents can be difficult in situations where one not only wants the agent to achieve some effect in the world but where one also cares about how that effect is achieved. For example, we might wish for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Xiangyu Peng , Christopher Cui , Wei Zhou , Renee Jia , Mark Riedl