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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive text generation capabilities, prompting us to reconsider the future of human-AI co-creation and how humans interact with LLMs. In this paper, we present a spectrum of content…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Zijian Ding , Joel Chan

The use of creative writing as training data for large language models (LLMs) is highly contentious and many writers have expressed outrage at the use of their work without consent or compensation. In this paper, we seek to understand how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Katy Ilonka Gero , Meera Desai , Carly Schnitzler , Nayun Eom , Jack Cushman , Elena L. Glassman

Reward modeling is crucial for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences, especially in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). However, current reward models mainly produce scalar scores and struggle to…

Requirements elicitation is still one of the most challenging activities of the requirements engineering process due to the difficulty requirements analysts face in understanding and translating complex needs into concrete requirements. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Giovanni Quattrocchi , Liliana Pasquale , Paola Spoletini , Luciano Baresi

Code generation has attracted increasing attention with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs). Many studies have developed powerful code LLMs by synthesizing code-related instruction data and applying supervised fine-tuning. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Changzhi Zhou , Xinyu Zhang , Dandan Song , Xiancai Chen , Wanli Gu , Huipeng Ma , Yuhang Tian , Mengdi Zhang , Linmei Hu

Generating coherent and cohesive long-form texts is a challenging task. Previous works relied on large amounts of human-generated texts to train neural language models. However, few attempted to explicitly improve neural language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Woon Sang Cho , Pengchuan Zhang , Yizhe Zhang , Xiujun Li , Michel Galley , Chris Brockett , Mengdi Wang , Jianfeng Gao

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support creative tasks such as research idea generation. While recent work has shown that structured dialogues between LLMs can improve the novelty and feasibility of generated ideas,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Keisuke Ueda , Wataru Hirota , Takuto Asakura , Takahiro Omi , Kosuke Takahashi , Kosuke Arima , Tatsuya Ishigaki

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

Reinforcement learning (RL)-based enhancement of large language models (LLMs) often leads to reduced output diversity, undermining their utility in open-ended tasks like creative writing. Current methods lack explicit mechanisms for guiding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Qian Cao , Yahui Liu , Wei Bi , Yi Zhao , Ruihua Song , Xiting Wang , Ruiming Tang , Guorui Zhou , Han Li

Hate speech and misinformation frequently co-occur online, amplifying prejudice and polarization. Given their scale, using Large Language Models (LLMs) to assist expert counterspeech (CS) writing has gained interest, yet prior work has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Genoveffa Martone , Helena Bonaldi , Marco Guerini

Public Narratives (PNs) are key tools for leadership development and civic mobilization, yet their systematic analysis remains challenging due to their subjective interpretation and the high cost of expert annotation. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Elinor Poole-Dayan , Daniel T Kessler , Hannah Chiou , Margaret Hughes , Emily S Lin , Marshall Ganz , Deb Roy

Large language model (LLM)-powered code review automation tools have been introduced to generate code review comments. However, not all generated comments will drive code changes. Understanding what types of generated review comments are…

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress, yet their ability to solve complex problems remains limited. In this work, we introduce Cumulative Reasoning (CR), a structured framework that enhances LLM…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yifan Zhang , Jingqin Yang , Yang Yuan , Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

We examine, analyze, and compare four representative creativity measures--perplexity, LLM-as-a-Judge, the Creativity Index (CI; measuring n-gram overlap with web corpora), and syntactic templates (detecting repetition of common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Li-Chun Lu , Miri Liu , Pin-Chun Lu , Yufei Tian , Shao-Hua Sun , Nanyun Peng

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed how people interact with artificial intelligence (AI) systems, achieving state-of-the-art results in various tasks, including scientific discovery and hypothesis generation. However, the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Sikun Guo , Amir Hassan Shariatmadari , Guangzhi Xiong , Albert Huang , Eric Xie , Stefan Bekiranov , Aidong Zhang

Self-critic has become a crucial mechanism for enhancing the reasoning performance of LLMs. However, current approaches mainly involve basic prompts for intuitive instance-level feedback, which resembles System-1 processes and limits the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xin Zheng , Jie Lou , Boxi Cao , Xueru Wen , Yuqiu Ji , Hongyu Lin , Yaojie Lu , Xianpei Han , Debing Zhang , Le Sun

The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) raises a critical question about what it means to be human when we share an increasingly symbiotic relationship with persuasive and creative machines. This paper examines patterns of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Vivan Doshi , Mengyuan Li

The ability of large language models (LLMs) to utilize external tools has enabled them to tackle an increasingly diverse range of tasks. However, as the tasks become more complex and long-horizon, the intricate tool utilization process may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Shiting Huang , Zhen Fang , Zehui Chen , Siyu Yuan , Junjie Ye , Yu Zeng , Lin Chen , Qi Mao , Feng Zhao

Recent developments in natural language generation (NLG) using neural language models have brought us closer than ever to the goal of building AI-powered creative writing tools. However, most prior work on human-AI collaboration in the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Daphne Ippolito , Ann Yuan , Andy Coenen , Sehmon Burnam

Although LLMs have been widely adopted for creative content generation, a single-pass process often struggles to produce high-quality long narratives. How to effectively revise and improve long narrative scripts like scriptwriters remains a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Wenda Xie , Chao Guo , Yanqing Jing , Junle Wang , Yisheng Lv , Fei-Yue Wang