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Story generation aims to automatically produce coherent, structured, and engaging narratives. Although large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced text generation, stories generated by LLMs still diverge from human-authored…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Haotian Xia , Hao Peng , Yunjia Qi , Xiaozhi Wang , Bin Xu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

In this paper, we collect an anthology of 100 visual stories from authors who participated in our systematic creative process of improvised story-building based on image sequences. Following close reading and thematic analysis of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Brett A. Halperin , Stephanie M. Lukin

Recent visual generative models enable story generation with consistent characters from text, but human-centric story generation faces additional challenges, such as maintaining detailed and diverse human face consistency and coordinating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Donghao Zhou , Jingyu Lin , Guibao Shen , Quande Liu , Jialin Gao , Lihao Liu , Lan Du , Cunjian Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Xiaowei Hu , Pheng-Ann Heng

We study personalized figure caption generation using author profile data from scientific papers. Our experiments demonstrate that rich author profile data, combined with relevant metadata, can significantly improve the personalization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jaeyoung Kim , Jongho Lee , Hongjun Choi , Sion Jang

Stylistic analysis of text is a key task in research areas ranging from authorship attribution to forensic analysis and personality profiling. The existing approaches for stylistic analysis are plagued by issues like topic influence, lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ronald Wilson , Avanti Bhandarkar , Damon Woodard

We present a new corpus, PersonaBank, consisting of 108 personal stories from weblogs that have been annotated with their Story Intention Graphs, a deep representation of the fabula of a story. We describe the topics of the stories and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Stephanie M. Lukin , Kevin Bowden , Casey Barackman , Marilyn A. Walker

Personalized dialogue systems explore the problem of generating responses that are consistent with the user's personality, which has raised much attention in recent years. Existing personalized dialogue systems have tried to extract user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hanxun Zhong , Zhicheng Dou , Yutao Zhu , Hongjin Qian , Ji-Rong Wen

Idea generation is the core activity of innovation. Digital data sources, which are sources of innovation, such as patents, publications, social media, websites, etc., are increasingly growing at unprecedented volume. Manual idea generation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Workneh Y. Ayele , Gustaf Juell-Skielse

Storytelling has always been vital for human nature. From ancient times, humans have used stories for several objectives including entertainment, advertisement, and education. Various analyses have been conducted by researchers and creators…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yusuke Mori , Hiroaki Yamane , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

Generative user interfaces (UIs) create new opportunities to adapt interfaces to individual users on demand, but personalization remains difficult because desirable UI properties are subjective, hard to articulate, and costly to infer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yi-Hao Peng , Samarth Das , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Jason Wu

As generative AI tools like ChatGPT become integral to everyday writing, critical questions arise about how to preserve writers' sense of agency and ownership when using these tools. Yet, a systematic understanding of how AI assistance…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Mohi Reza , Jeb Thomas-Mitchell , Peter Dushniku , Nathan Laundry , Joseph Jay Williams , Anastasia Kuzminykh

Given the rising proliferation and diversity of AI writing assistance tools, especially those powered by large language models (LLMs), both writers and readers may have concerns about the impact of these tools on the authenticity of writing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang , Q. Vera Liao , Su Lin Blodgett , Alexandra Olteanu , Adam Trischler

The emerging practice of data-driven storytelling is framing data using familiar narrative mechanisms such as slideshows, videos, and comics to make even highly complex phenomena understandable. However, current data stories are still not…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhenpeng Zhao , Niklas Elmqvist

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

Generative AI blurs the lines of authorship in computing education, creating uncertainty around how students should attribute AI assistance. To examine these emerging norms, we conducted a factorial vignette study with 94 computer science…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Runlong Ye , Oliver Huang , Jessica He , Michael Liut

In this paper, we focus on the personalized response generation for conversational systems. Based on the sequence to sequence learning, especially the encoder-decoder framework, we propose a two-phase approach, namely initialization then…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Weinan Zhang , Ting Liu , Yifa Wang , Qingfu Zhu

Writing persuasive arguments is a challenging task for both humans and machines. It entails incorporating high-level beliefs from various perspectives on the topic, along with deliberate reasoning and planning to construct a coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Zhe Hu , Hou Pong Chan , Jing Li , Yu Yin

In a stylized voting model, we establish that increasing the share of critical thinkers -- individuals who are aware of the ambivalent nature of a certain issue -- in the population increases the efficiency of surveys (elections) but might…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-03-30 Brian Jabarian , Elia Sartori

Story visualization requires generating sequential imagery that aligns semantically with evolving narratives while maintaining rigorous consistency in character identity and visual style. However, existing methodologies often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jianzhang Zhang , Yijing Tian , Jiwang Qu , Chuang Liu

The advent of large pre-trained generative language models has provided a common framework for AI story generation via sampling the model to create sequences that continue the story. However, sampling alone is insufficient for story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Amal Alabdulkarim , Winston Li , Lara J. Martin , Mark O. Riedl