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Narrative Interpolation for Generating and Understanding Stories

arXiv 2008.07466 ↗First posted 17 Aug 2020cs.CLcited by 19

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Abstract (arXiv)

We propose a method for controlled narrative/story generation where we are able to guide the model to produce coherent narratives with user-specified target endings by interpolation: for example, we are told that Jim went hiking and at the end Jim needed to be rescued, and we want the model to incrementally generate steps along the way. The core of our method is an interpolation model based on GPT-2 which conditions on a previous sentence and a next sentence in a narrative and fills in the gap. Additionally, a reranker helps control for coherence of the generated text. With human evaluation, we show that ending-guided generation results in narratives which are coherent, faithful to the given ending guide, and require less manual effort on the part of the human guide writer than past approaches.

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  1. 2022Re3: Generating Longer Stories With Recursive Reprompting and Revisioncited by 193
  2. 2022Of Human Criteria and Automatic Metrics: A Benchmark of the Evaluation of Story Generationcited by 73
  3. 2021Automatic Story Generation: Challenges and Attemptscited by 28
  4. 2021Plug-and-Blend: A Framework for Controllable Story Generation with Blended Control Codescited by 19
  5. 2021Goal-Directed Story Generation: Augmenting Generative Language Models with Reinforcement Learningcited by 14
  6. 2022Robust Preference Learning for Storytelling via Contrastive Reinforcement Learningcited by 14
  7. 2023GROVE: A Retrieval-augmented Complex Story Generation Framework with A Forest of Evidencecited by 14
  8. 2023LongStory: Coherent, Complete and Length Controlled Long story Generationcited by 12
  9. 2021FairyTailor: A Multimodal Generative Framework for Storytellingcited by 9
  10. 2024Exploring Empty Spaces: Human-in-the-Loop Data Augmentationcited by 6
  11. 2023A Digital Language Coherence Marker for Monitoring Dementiacited by 4
  12. 2025OpeNLGauge: An Explainable Metric for NLG Evaluation with Open-Weights LLMscited by 4
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  1. 2026Narrix: Remixing Narrative Strategies from Examples for Story Writingcited by 4
  2. 2021Semantic Frame Forecastcited by 3
  3. 2024Returning to the Start: Generating Narratives with Related Endpointscited by 3
  4. 2022COMPASS: a Creative Support System that Alerts Novelists to the Unnoticed Missing Contentscited by 2
  5. 2024Multigenre AI-powered Story Compositioncited by 1
  6. 2022Computational Storytelling and Emotions: A Surveycited by 0
  7. 2025Data Augmentation for Fake Reviews Detection in Multiple Languages and Multiple Domainscited by 0