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Strategies for Structuring Story Generation

arXiv 1902.01109 ↗First posted 4 Feb 2019cs.CLcited by 124

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Writers generally rely on plans or sketches to write long stories, but most current language models generate word by word from left to right. We explore coarse-to-fine models for creating narrative texts of several hundred words, and introduce new models which decompose stories by abstracting over actions and entities. The model first generates the predicate-argument structure of the text, where different mentions of the same entity are marked with placeholder tokens. It then generates a surface realization of the predicate-argument structure, and finally replaces the entity placeholders with context-sensitive names and references. Human judges prefer the stories from our models to a wide range of previous approaches to hierarchical text generation. Extensive analysis shows that our methods can help improve the diversity and coherence of events and entities in generated stories.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 41; 2022: 36; 2023: 19; 2024: 13; 2025: 8; 2026: 7.

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  1. 2022Re3: Generating Longer Stories With Recursive Reprompting and Revisioncited by 193
  2. 2022Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: An Evaluation by Industry Professionalscited by 191
  3. 2021ArtEmis: Affective Language for Visual Artcited by 104
  4. 2021The Perils of Using Mechanical Turk to Evaluate Open-Ended Text Generationcited by 97
  5. 2023RecurrentGPT: Interactive Generation of (Arbitrarily) Long Textcited by 84
  6. 2021OpenMEVA: A Benchmark for Evaluating Open-ended Story Generation Metricscited by 61
  7. 2024Agents' Room: Narrative Generation through Multi-step Collaborationcited by 57
  8. 2024LongGenBench: Benchmarking Long-Form Generation in Long Context LLMscited by 47
  9. 2021Generating Syntactically Controlled Paraphrases without Using Annotated Parallel Pairscited by 45
  10. 2022ClarET: Pre-training a Correlation-Aware Context-To-Event Transformer for Event-Centric Generation and Classificationcited by 45
  11. 2022CoditT5: Pretraining for Source Code and Natural Language Editingcited by 45
  12. 2021Towards Knowledge-Grounded Counter Narrative Generation for Hate Speechcited by 42
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  1. 2021Not All Memories are Created Equal: Learning to Forget by Expiringcited by 32
  2. 2023Visual Writing Prompts: Character-Grounded Story Generation with Curated Image Sequencescited by 31
  3. 2022PLANET: Dynamic Content Planning in Autoregressive Transformers for Long-form Text Generationcited by 30
  4. 2021Inferring the Reader: Guiding Automated Story Generation with Commonsense Reasoningcited by 29
  5. 2021Automatic Story Generation: Challenges and Attemptscited by 28
  6. 2022Zero-shot Sonnet Generation with Discourse-level Planning and Aesthetics Featurescited by 25
  7. 2021Towards Faithfulness in Open Domain Table-to-text Generation from an Entity-centric Viewcited by 24
  8. 2024PROXYQA: An Alternative Framework for Evaluating Long-Form Text Generation with Large Language Modelscited by 24
  9. 2024Language Models can Self-Lengthen to Generate Long Textscited by 24
  10. 2024Creating Suspenseful Stories: Iterative Planning with Large Language Modelscited by 22
  11. 2024Collective Critics for Creative Story Generationcited by 22
  12. 2021Stylized Story Generation with Style-Guided Planningcited by 21
  13. 2022StoryER: Automatic Story Evaluation via Ranking, Rating and Reasoningcited by 21
  14. 2023Multimodal Event Transformer for Image-guided Story Ending Generationcited by 21
  15. 2022Why is constrained neural language generation particularly challenging?cited by 19
  16. 2022Affection: Learning Affective Explanations for Real-World Visual Datacited by 19
  17. 2025StoryWriter: A Multi-Agent Framework for Long Story Generationcited by 19
  18. 2021GraphPlan: Story Generation by Planning with Event Graphcited by 18
  19. 2022Language modeling via stochastic processescited by 18
  20. 2024Robust Pronoun Fidelity with English LLMs: Are they Reasoning, Repeating, or Just Biased?cited by 17
  21. 2024What Makes a Good Story and How Can We Measure It? A Comprehensive Survey of Story Evaluationcited by 17
  22. 2022Persona-Guided Planning for Controlling the Protagonist's Persona in Story Generationcited by 15
  23. 2022Go Back in Time: Generating Flashbacks in Stories with Event Temporal Promptscited by 15
  24. 2021Plot and Rework: Modeling Storylines for Visual Storytellingcited by 14
  25. 2021DiscoDVT: Generating Long Text with Discourse-Aware Discrete Variational Transformercited by 14
  26. 2021Goal-Directed Story Generation: Augmenting Generative Language Models with Reinforcement Learningcited by 14
  27. 2023DisCGen: A Framework for Discourse-Informed Counterspeech Generationcited by 14
  28. 2021Plot-guided Adversarial Example Construction for Evaluating Open-domain Story Generationcited by 13
  29. 2024MoPS: Modular Story Premise Synthesis for Open-Ended Automatic Story Generationcited by 13
  30. 2021Guiding Neural Story Generation with Reader Modelscited by 12
  31. 2023EIPE-text: Evaluation-Guided Iterative Plan Extraction for Long-Form Narrative Text Generationcited by 12
  32. 2023LongStory: Coherent, Complete and Length Controlled Long story Generationcited by 12
  33. 2021DYPLOC: Dynamic Planning of Content Using Mixed Language Models for Text Generationcited by 11
  34. 2022Towards Inter-character Relationship-driven Story Generationcited by 11
  35. 2021DiSCoL: Toward Engaging Dialogue Systems through Conversational Line Guided Response Generationcited by 10
  36. 2022Towards Coherent and Consistent Use of Entities in Narrative Generationcited by 10
  37. 2024Ex3: Automatic Novel Writing by Extracting, Excelsior and Expandingcited by 10
  38. 2025STORYTELLER: An Enhanced Plot-Planning Framework for Coherent and Cohesive Story Generationcited by 10

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