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Automatic Story Generation: Challenges and Attempts

arXiv 2102.12634 ↗First posted 25 Feb 2021cs.CLcited by 28

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Abstract (arXiv)

The scope of this survey paper is to explore the challenges in automatic story generation. We hope to contribute in the following ways: 1. Explore how previous research in story generation addressed those challenges. 2. Discuss future research directions and new technologies that may aid more advancements. 3. Shed light on emerging and often overlooked challenges such as creativity and discourse.

Key facts. Cited by 28 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 32 of its 58 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 25 Feb 2021.

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  1. 2022Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: An Evaluation by Industry Professionalscited by 191
  2. 2022Of Human Criteria and Automatic Metrics: A Benchmark of the Evaluation of Story Generationcited by 73
  3. 2024Agents' Room: Narrative Generation through Multi-step Collaborationcited by 57
  4. 2024Do Language Models Enjoy Their Own Stories? Prompting Large Language Models for Automatic Story Evaluationcited by 32
  5. 2024Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytellingcited by 23
  6. 2023COLA: Contextualized Commonsense Causal Reasoning from the Causal Inference Perspectivecited by 22
  7. 2022Open-world Story Generation with Structured Knowledge Enhancement: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 21
  8. 2024Text Generation: A Systematic Literature Review of Tasks, Evaluation, and Challengescited by 18
  9. 2023GROVE: A Retrieval-augmented Complex Story Generation Framework with A Forest of Evidencecited by 14
  10. 2023LongStory: Coherent, Complete and Length Controlled Long story Generationcited by 12
  11. 2024CharacterGPT: A Persona Reconstruction Framework for Role-Playing Agentscited by 10
  12. 2025STORYTELLER: An Enhanced Plot-Planning Framework for Coherent and Cohesive Story Generationcited by 9
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  1. 2024SWAG: Storytelling With Action Guidancecited by 8
  2. 2022CHAE: Fine-Grained Controllable Story Generation with Characters, Actions and Emotionscited by 6
  3. 2023HistAlign: Improving Context Dependency in Language Generation by Aligning with Historycited by 6
  4. 2022Every picture tells a story: Image-grounded controllable stylistic story generationcited by 5
  5. 2021Exploring Story Generation with Multi-task Objectives in Variational Autoencoderscited by 4
  6. 2024Returning to the Start: Generating Narratives with Related Endpointscited by 3
  7. 2024LLM Augmentations to support Analytical Reasoning over Multiple Documentscited by 3
  8. 2026Narrative Theory-Driven LLM Methods for Automatic Story Generation and Understanding: A Surveycited by 3
  9. 2022Psychology-guided Controllable Story Generationcited by 2
  10. 2023Automatic Generation of German Drama Texts Using Fine Tuned GPT-2 Modelscited by 2
  11. 2025Guiding Generative Storytelling with Knowledge Graphscited by 2
  12. 2022Automatic Emotion Modelling in Written Storiescited by 1
  13. 2023Sudowoodo: a Chinese Lyric Imitation System with Source Lyricscited by 1
  14. 2024Beyond Generative Artificial Intelligence: Roadmap for Natural Language Generationcited by 1
  15. 2025CreAgentive: An Agent Workflow Driven Multi-Category Creative Generation Enginecited by 0
  16. 2025AgentEval: Generative Agents as Reliable Proxies for Human Evaluation of AI-Generated Contentcited by 0