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Generating high-quality stories spanning thousands of tokens requires competency across a variety of skills, from tracking plot and character arcs to keeping a consistent and engaging style. Due to the difficulty of sourcing labeled…

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Agentic AI denotes an architectural transition from stateless, prompt-driven generative models toward goal-directed systems capable of autonomous perception, planning, action, and adaptation through iterative control loops. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mamdouh Alenezi

Creative writing is hard: Novelists struggle with writer's block daily. While automatic story generation has advanced recently, it is treated as a "toy task" for advancing artificial intelligence rather than helping people. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Chieh-Yang Huang , Saniya Naphade , Kavya Laalasa Karanam , Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang

Large language models optimized for instruction following and agentic tasks remain poorly aligned with the requirements of high-quality creative writing. Fiction frequently depends on behaviors that assistant-tuned models are explicitly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jan Zierstek , Matteo Batelic , Maya Medjad , Tim Schönenberger

As a promising paradigm, interactive semantic parsing has shown to improve both semantic parsing accuracy and user confidence in the results. In this paper, we propose a new, unified formulation of the interactive semantic parsing problem,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Ziyu Yao , Yu Su , Huan Sun , Wen-tau Yih

Video storytelling is engaging multimedia content that utilizes video and its accompanying narration to attract the audience, where a key challenge is creating narrations for recorded visual scenes. Previous studies on dense video…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Dingyi Yang , Chunru Zhan , Ziheng Wang , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Bo Zheng , Qin Jin

Manually navigating lengthy videos to seek information or answer questions can be a tedious and time-consuming task for users. We introduce StoryNavi, a novel system powered by VLLMs for generating customised video play experiences by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Alston Lantian Xu , Tianwei Ma , Tianmeng Liu , Can Liu , Alvaro Cassinelli

We define "visual story-writing" as using visual representations of story elements to support writing and revising narrative texts. To demonstrate this approach, we developed a text editor that automatically visualizes a graph of entity…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Damien Masson , Zixin Zhao , Fanny Chevalier

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong potential for narrative generation, but their use in complex, multi-layered role-playing game (RPG) worlds is still limited by issues of coherence, controllability, and structural consistency.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Dominik Borawski , Marta Szulc , Robert Chudy , Małgorzata Giedrowicz , Piotr Mironowicz

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) has become ubiquitous, with abundant applications in computational creativity. One such application is fictional story generation. Fiction is a narrative that occurs in a story world that is slightly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Aisha Khatun , Daniel G. Brown

Non-parallel text style transfer is an important task in natural language generation. However, previous studies concentrate on the token or sentence level, such as sentence sentiment and formality transfer, but neglect long style transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xuekai Zhu , Jian Guan , Minlie Huang , Juan Liu

We present a literature survey on non-interactive computational story generation. The article starts with the presentation of requirements for creative systems, three types of models of creativity (computational, socio-cultural, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Luis Miguel Botelho

Symbolic world models (e.g., PDDL domains or executable simulators) are central to model-based planning, but training LLMs to generate such world models is limited by the lack of large-scale verifiable supervision. Current approaches rely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mengkang Hu , Bowei Xia , Yuran Wu , Ailing Yu , Yude Zou , Qiguang Chen , Shijian Wang , Jiarui Jin , Kexin Li , Wenxiang Jiao , Yuan Lu , Ping Luo

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

Storytelling in real-world videos often unfolds through multiple shots -- discontinuous yet semantically connected clips that together convey a coherent narrative. However, existing multi-shot video generation (MSV) methods struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhaochong An , Menglin Jia , Haonan Qiu , Zijian Zhou , Xiaoke Huang , Zhiheng Liu , Weiming Ren , Kumara Kahatapitiya , Ding Liu , Sen He , Chenyang Zhang , Tao Xiang , Fanny Yang , Serge Belongie , Tian Xie

In recent years, agentic workflows have been widely applied to solve complex human tasks. However, existing workflow construction still faces key challenges, including human-dependent workflow construction, the lack of graph-level execution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Mingda Zhang , Wenjin Liu , Tiesunlong Shen , Qika Lin , Rui Mao , Erik Cambria , Xiaoying Tang , Haoran Luo

A data story typically integrates data facts from multiple perspectives and stances to construct a comprehensive and objective narrative. However, retrieving these facts demands time for data search and challenges the creator's analytical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Chuer Chen , Yuqi Liu , Danqing Shi , Shixiong Cao , Nan Cao

Generating video stories from text prompts is a complex task. In addition to having high visual quality, videos need to realistically adhere to a sequence of text prompts whilst being consistent throughout the frames. Creating a benchmark…

Current AI writing tools, which rely on text prompts, poorly support the spatial and interactive nature of storytelling where ideas emerge from direct manipulation and play. We present PlayWrite, a mixed-reality system where users author…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Esen K. Tütüncü , Qian Zhou , Frederik Brudy , George Fitzmaurice , Fraser Anderson

Automatically generating stories is a challenging problem that requires producing causally related and logical sequences of events about a topic. Previous approaches in this domain have focused largely on one-shot generation, where a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Faeze Brahman , Alexandru Petrusca , Snigdha Chaturvedi