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Storytelling plays a central role in human socializing and entertainment. However, much of the research on automatic storytelling generation assumes that stories will be generated by an agent without any human interaction. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Eric Nichols , Leo Gao , Randy Gomez

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

Automated plot generation is the challenge of generating a sequence of events that will be perceived by readers as the plot of a coherent story. Traditional symbolic planners plan a story from a goal state and guarantee logical causal plot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Anbang Ye , Christopher Cui , Taiwei Shi , Mark O. Riedl

Storytelling and narrative are fundamental to human experience, intertwined with our social and cultural engagement. As such, researchers have long attempted to create systems that can generate stories automatically. In recent years,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yuxin Wang , Jieru Lin , Zhiwei Yu , Wei Hu , Börje F. Karlsson

Effective code generation requires both model capability and a problem representation that carefully structures how models reason and plan. Existing approaches augment reasoning steps or inject specific structure into how models think, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Geonhui Jang , Dongyoon Han , YoungJoon Yoo

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

We explore story generation: creative systems that can build coherent and fluent passages of text about a topic. We collect a large dataset of 300K human-written stories paired with writing prompts from an online forum. Our dataset enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Angela Fan , Mike Lewis , Yann Dauphin

Story generation is a challenging task, which demands to maintain consistency of the plots and characters throughout the story. Previous works have shown that GPT2, a large-scale language model, has achieved good performance on story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Wei Wang , Piji Li , Hai-Tao Zheng

Long story generation remains a challenge for existing large language models (LLMs), primarily due to two main factors: (1) discourse coherence, which requires plot consistency, logical coherence, and completeness in the long-form…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Haotian Xia , Hao Peng , Yunjia Qi , Xiaozhi Wang , Bin Xu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Neural language model-based approaches to automated story generation suffer from two important limitations. First, language model-based story generators generally do not work toward a given goal or ending. Second, they often lose coherence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Louis Castricato , Spencer Frazier , Jonathan Balloch , Nitya Tarakad , Mark Riedl

Narrative, and in particular storytelling, is an important part of the human experience. Consequently, computational systems that can reason about narrative can be more effective communicators, entertainers, educators, and trainers. One of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Mark Owen Riedl , Robert Michael Young

Automatic storytelling is challenging since it requires generating long, coherent natural language to describes a sensible sequence of events. Despite considerable efforts on automatic story generation in the past, prior work either is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Lili Yao , Nanyun Peng , Ralph Weischedel , Kevin Knight , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

A storyboard is a sequence of images to illustrate a story containing multiple sentences, which has been a key process to create different story products. In this paper, we tackle a new multimedia task of automatic storyboard creation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Shizhe Chen , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Ruihua Song , Qin Jin , Pingping Lin , Xiaoyu Qi , Chunting Wang , Jin Zhou

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

Storytelling algorithms aim to 'connect the dots' between disparate documents by linking starting and ending documents through a series of intermediate documents. Existing storytelling algorithms are based on notions of coherence and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Dipayan Maiti , Mohammad Raihanul Islam , Scotland Leman , Naren Ramakrishnan

Design processes involve exploration, iteration, and movement across interconnected stages such as persona creation, problem framing, solution ideation, and prototyping. However, time and resource constraints often hinder designers from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Sangho Suh , Michael Lai , Kevin Pu , Steven P. Dow , Tovi Grossman

Community engagement processes in representative political contexts, like school districts, generate massive volumes of feedback that overwhelm traditional synthesis methods, creating barriers to shared understanding not only between civic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Cassandra Overney , Hang Jiang , Urooj Haider , Cassandra Moe , Jasmine Mangat , Frank Pantano , Effie G. McMillian , Paul Riggins , Nabeel Gillani

Current storytelling systems focus more ongenerating stories with coherent plots regard-less of the narration style, which is impor-tant for controllable text generation. There-fore, we propose a new task, stylized story gen-eration, namely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Xiangzhe Kong , Jialiang Huang , Ziquan Tung , Jian Guan , Minlie Huang

Storytelling is an open-ended task that entails creative thinking and requires a constant flow of ideas. Natural language generation (NLG) for storytelling is especially challenging because it requires the generated text to follow an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Eden Bensaid , Mauro Martino , Benjamin Hoover , Hendrik Strobelt

Long-form narrative text generated from large language models manages a fluent impersonation of human writing, but only at the local sentence level, and lacks structure or global cohesion. We posit that many of the problems of story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Tuhin Chakrabarty , Ralph Weischedel , Nanyun Peng
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