# NGEP: A Graph-based Event Planning Framework for Story Generation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10602 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.10602/

## Key facts

- Cited by 13 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 15 of its 25 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 19 Oct 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 15 of 15)

- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.10683/) (2019)
- [BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.13461/) (2019)
- [A Diversity-Promoting Objective Function for Neural Conversation Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1510.03055/) (2015)
- [Object Hallucination in Image Captioning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.02156/) (2018)
- [A Corpus and Evaluation Framework for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Stories](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1604.01696/) (2016)
- [Plan-And-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.05701/) (2018)
- [A Knowledge-Enhanced Pretraining Model for Commonsense Story Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2001.05139/) (2020)
- [Content Planning for Neural Story Generation with Aristotelian Rescoring](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.09870/) (2020)
- [Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.01331/) (2017)
- [Long Text Generation by Modeling Sentence-Level and Discourse-Level Coherence](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.08963/) (2021)
- [Guiding the Growth: Difficulty-Controllable Question Generation through Step-by-Step Rewriting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.11698/) (2021)
- [GraphPlan: Story Generation by Planning with Event Graph](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.02977/) (2021)
- [Recent Advances in Neural Text Generation: A Task-Agnostic Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.03047/) (2022)
- [Narrative Text Generation with a Latent Discrete Plan](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.03272/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 13 of 13)

- [EtriCA: Event-Triggered Context-Aware Story Generation Augmented by Cross Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.12463/) (2022)
- [TwistList: Resources and Baselines for Tongue Twister Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.03457/) (2023)
- [Enhancing Dialogue Generation via Dynamic Graph Knowledge Aggregation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.16195/) (2023)
- [The Iron(ic) Melting Pot: Reviewing Human Evaluation in Humour, Irony and Sarcasm Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.05552/) (2023)
- [Improving Biomedical Abstractive Summarisation with Knowledge Aggregation from Citation Papers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.15684/) (2023)
- [Terminology-aware Medical Dialogue Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.15551/) (2022)
- [CADGE: Context-Aware Dialogue Generation Enhanced with Graph-Structured Knowledge Aggregation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.06294/) (2023)
- [A Cross-Attention Augmented Model for Event-Triggered Context-Aware Story Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.11271/) (2023)
- [Tinker Tales: Interactive Storytelling Framework for Early Childhood Narrative Development and AI Literacy](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.13969/) (2025)
- [ACL Anthology Helper: A Tool to Retrieve and Manage Literature from ACL Anthology](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.20467/) (2023)
- [BioMNER: A Dataset for Biomedical Method Entity Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.20038/) (2024)
- [ConVAWG: A Retrieval-Grounded Framework for Controlled Synthetic Dialogue Generation in Violence Against Women and Girls](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.11200/) (2026)
- [Distinguishing Revision and Delayed Elaboration in Incremental Narrative Interpretation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.21364/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

To improve the performance of long text generation, recent studies have leveraged automatically planned event structures (i.e. storylines) to guide story generation. Such prior works mostly employ end-to-end neural generation models to predict event sequences for a story. However, such generation models struggle to guarantee the narrative coherence of separate events due to the hallucination problem, and additionally the generated event sequences are often hard to control due to the end-to-end nature of the models. To address these challenges, we propose NGEP, an novel event planning framework which generates an event sequence by performing inference on an automatically constructed event graph and enhances generalisation ability through a neural event advisor. We conduct a range of experiments on multiple criteria, and the results demonstrate that our graph-based neural framework outperforms the state-of-the-art (SOTA) event planning approaches, considering both the performance of event sequence generation and the effectiveness on the downstream task of story generation.