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Content Planning for Neural Story Generation with Aristotelian Rescoring

arXiv 2009.09870 ↗First posted 21 Sep 2020cs.CL cs.AIcited by 92

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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 generation can be addressed via high-quality content planning, and present a system that focuses on how to learn good plot structures to guide story generation. We utilize a plot-generation language model along with an ensemble of rescoring models that each implement an aspect of good story-writing as detailed in Aristotle's Poetics. We find that stories written with our more principled plot-structure are both more relevant to a given prompt and higher quality than baselines that do not content plan, or that plan in an unprincipled way.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 17; 2022: 30; 2023: 18; 2024: 14; 2025: 8; 2026: 5.

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  1. 2023FLASK: Fine-grained Language Model Evaluation based on Alignment Skill Setscited by 198
  2. 2022Re3: Generating Longer Stories With Recursive Reprompting and Revisioncited by 193
  3. 2022Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: An Evaluation by Industry Professionalscited by 191
  4. 2023Art or Artifice? Large Language Models and the False Promise of Creativitycited by 168
  5. 2022A Survey of Controllable Text Generation using Transformer-based Pre-trained Language Modelscited by 128
  6. 2021The Perils of Using Mechanical Turk to Evaluate Open-Ended Text Generationcited by 96
  7. 2022Of Human Criteria and Automatic Metrics: A Benchmark of the Evaluation of Story Generationcited by 73
  8. 2023The Next Chapter: A Study of Large Language Models in Storytellingcited by 58
  9. 2024Agents' Room: Narrative Generation through Multi-step Collaborationcited by 57
  10. 2021MERMAID: Metaphor Generation with Symbolism and Discriminative Decodingcited by 49
  11. 2021Generating Syntactically Controlled Paraphrases without Using Annotated Parallel Pairscited by 45
  12. 2021Long Text Generation by Modeling Sentence-Level and Discourse-Level Coherencecited by 45
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  2. 2022Controllable Text Generation with Neurally-Decomposed Oraclecited by 41
  3. 2023HowToCaption: Prompting LLMs to Transform Video Annotations at Scalecited by 34
  4. 2022Character-Centric Story Visualization via Visual Planning and Token Alignmentcited by 32
  5. 2024Do Language Models Enjoy Their Own Stories? Prompting Large Language Models for Automatic Story Evaluationcited by 32
  6. 2023Visual Writing Prompts: Character-Grounded Story Generation with Curated Image Sequencescited by 31
  7. 2022PLANET: Dynamic Content Planning in Autoregressive Transformers for Long-form Text Generationcited by 30
  8. 2022Visualize Before You Write: Imagination-Guided Open-Ended Text Generationcited by 30
  9. 2021Inferring the Reader: Guiding Automated Story Generation with Commonsense Reasoningcited by 29
  10. 2024Debate-to-Write: A Persona-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Diverse Argument Generationcited by 29
  11. 2024DataNarrative: Automated Data-Driven Storytelling with Visualizations and Textscited by 25
  12. 2022Zero-shot Sonnet Generation with Discourse-level Planning and Aesthetics Featurescited by 24
  13. 2024Creating Suspenseful Stories: Iterative Planning with Large Language Modelscited by 22
  14. 2021Stylized Story Generation with Style-Guided Planningcited by 21
  15. 2022Open-world Story Generation with Structured Knowledge Enhancement: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 21
  16. 2024Evaluating Creative Short Story Generation in Humans and Large Language Modelscited by 21
  17. 2021GraphPlan: Story Generation by Planning with Event Graphcited by 18
  18. 2021EventPlus: A Temporal Event Understanding Pipelinecited by 17
  19. 2022EtriCA: Event-Triggered Context-Aware Story Generation Augmented by Cross Attentioncited by 17
  20. 2024What Makes a Good Story and How Can We Measure It? A Comprehensive Survey of Story Evaluationcited by 17
  21. 2022Persona-Guided Planning for Controlling the Protagonist's Persona in Story Generationcited by 15
  22. 2022Go Back in Time: Generating Flashbacks in Stories with Event Temporal Promptscited by 15
  23. 2021InsNet: An Efficient, Flexible, and Performant Insertion-based Text Generation Modelcited by 14
  24. 2021DiscoDVT: Generating Long Text with Discourse-Aware Discrete Variational Transformercited by 14
  25. 2022Recent Advances in Neural Text Generation: A Task-Agnostic Surveycited by 14
  26. 2021Plot-guided Adversarial Example Construction for Evaluating Open-domain Story Generationcited by 13
  27. 2022NGEP: A Graph-based Event Planning Framework for Story Generationcited by 13
  28. 2021Guiding Neural Story Generation with Reader Modelscited by 12
  29. 2023Storyfier: Exploring Vocabulary Learning Support with Text Generation Modelscited by 12
  30. 2023EIPE-text: Evaluation-Guided Iterative Plan Extraction for Long-Form Narrative Text Generationcited by 12
  31. 2025BookWorld: From Novels to Interactive Agent Societies for Creative Story Generationcited by 12
  32. 2021DYPLOC: Dynamic Planning of Content Using Mixed Language Models for Text Generationcited by 11
  33. 2022Towards Inter-character Relationship-driven Story Generationcited by 11
  34. 2023The Iron(ic) Melting Pot: Reviewing Human Evaluation in Humour, Irony and Sarcasm Generationcited by 11
  35. 2025VIST-GPT: Ushering in the Era of Visual Storytelling with LLMs?cited by 11
  36. 2021DiSCoL: Toward Engaging Dialogue Systems through Conversational Line Guided Response Generationcited by 10
  37. 2022Towards Coherent and Consistent Use of Entities in Narrative Generationcited by 10
  38. 2022Improving Chinese Story Generation via Awareness of Syntactic Dependencies and Semanticscited by 10

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