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A Corpus for Understanding and Generating Moral Stories

arXiv 2204.09438 ↗First posted 20 Apr 2022cs.CLcited by 16

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Abstract (arXiv)

Teaching morals is one of the most important purposes of storytelling. An essential ability for understanding and writing moral stories is bridging story plots and implied morals. Its challenges mainly lie in: (1) grasping knowledge about abstract concepts in morals, (2) capturing inter-event discourse relations in stories, and (3) aligning value preferences of stories and morals concerning good or bad behavior. In this paper, we propose two understanding tasks and two generation tasks to assess these abilities of machines. We present STORAL, a new dataset of Chinese and English human-written moral stories. We show the difficulty of the proposed tasks by testing various models with automatic and manual evaluation on STORAL. Furthermore, we present a retrieval-augmented algorithm that effectively exploits related concepts or events in training sets as additional guidance to improve performance on these tasks.

Key facts. Cited by 16 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 34 of its 68 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 20 Apr 2022.

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  1. 2022Open-world Story Generation with Structured Knowledge Enhancement: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 21
  2. 2024Bridging Cultural Nuances in Dialogue Agents through Cultural Value Surveyscited by 18
  3. 2025VocalBench: Benchmarking the Vocal Conversational Abilities for Speech Interaction Modelscited by 15
  4. 2025Are Rules Meant to be Broken? Understanding Multilingual Moral Reasoning as a Computational Pipeline with UniMoralcited by 14
  5. 2025CULEMO: Cultural Lenses on Emotion -- Benchmarking LLMs for Cross-Cultural Emotion Understandingcited by 14
  6. 2023Values, Ethics, Morals? On the Use of Moral Concepts in NLP Researchcited by 13
  7. 2025JETHICS: Japanese Ethics Understanding Evaluation Datasetcited by 3
  8. 2025TF1-EN-3M: Three Million Synthetic Moral Fables for Training Small, Open Language Modelscited by 2
  9. 2025Building Large-Scale English-Romanian Literary Translation Resources with Open Modelscited by 2
  10. 2026Structuring the Space of Sociotechnical Alignmentcited by 2
  11. 2026Lessons Without Borders? Evaluating Cultural Alignment of LLMs Using Multilingual Story Moral Generationcited by 1
  12. 2025S2LM: Towards Semantic Steganography via Large Language Modelscited by 0
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  2. 2026TF3-RO-50M: Training Compact Romanian Language Models from Scratch on Synthetic Moral Microfictioncited by 0
  3. 2026Constrained Semantic Decompression in LLMs through Persian Proverb-Conditioned Story Generationcited by 0
  4. 2026Generating Constructive Feedback on Stories via Reinforcement Learningcited by 0

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