English

Stylized Story Generation with Style-Guided Planning

Computation and Language 2021-08-20 v3 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

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 generating stories with speci-fied style given a leading context. To tacklethe problem, we propose a novel generationmodel that first plans the stylized keywordsand then generates the whole story with theguidance of the keywords. Besides, we pro-pose two automatic metrics to evaluate theconsistency between the generated story andthe specified style. Experiments demonstratesthat our model can controllably generateemo-tion-driven orevent-driven stories based onthe ROCStories dataset (Mostafazadeh et al.,2016). Our study presents insights for stylizedstory generation in further research.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2105.08625,
  title  = {Stylized Story Generation with Style-Guided Planning},
  author = {Xiangzhe Kong and Jialiang Huang and Ziquan Tung and Jian Guan and Minlie Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.08625},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

9 pages, 3 figures. Accepted by Findings of ACL 2021

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