Awesome-Story-Generation
Contributed by Yingpeng Ma, Yan Ma
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
Papers
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ACL-2023Title [paper] [code] .. [authors] []()
Literature Review
CHI-2024The Value, Benefits, and Concerns of Generative AI-Powered Assistance in Writing [paper] [Zhuoyan Li, Chen Liang, Jing Peng, Ming Yin] []()
EMNLP-2023Creative Natural Language Generation [paper] [Tuhin Chakrabarty, Vishakh Padmakumar, He He, Nanyun Peng] []()
Neurocomputing-2023Open-world story generation with structured knowledge enhancement: A comprehensive survey [paper] [Yuxin Wang, Jieru Lin, Zhiwei Yu, Wei Hu, Börje F. Karlsson]WNU-2022What is Wrong with Language Models that Can Not Tell a Story? [paper] [Ivan P. Yamshchikov, Alexey Tikhonov]ACM Computing Surveys-2021Automatic Story Generation [paper] [Arwa I. Alhussain, Aqil M. Azmi]NUSE-2021Automatic Story Generation: Challenges and Attempts [paper] [Amal Alabdulkarim, Siyan Li, Xiangyu Peng]
Large Language Model
EACL-2024Creating Suspenseful Stories: Iterative Planning with Large Language Models [paper] [Kaige Xie, Mark Riedl] []()
Arxiv-2024SWAG: Storytelling With Action Guidance [paper] [Zeeshan Patel, Karim El-Refai, Jonathan Pei, Tianle Li] []()
Arxiv-2024Weaver: Foundation Models for Creative Writing [paper] [Tiannan Wang, Jiamin Chen, Qingrui Jia, Shuai Wang, Ruoyu Fang, ... , Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Wangchunshu Zhou] []()
ArXiv-2023AutoAgents: A Framework for Automatic Agent Generation [paper] [Guangyao Chen, Siwei Dong, Yu Shu, Ge Zhang, Jaward Sesay, Börje F. Karlsson, Jie Fu, Yemin Shi] []()
ArXiv-2023RecurrentGPT: Interactive Generation of (Arbitrarily) Long Text [paper] [code] [Wangchunshu Zhou, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Peng Cui, Tiannan Wang, Zhenxin Xiao, Yifan Hou, Ryan Cotterell, Mrinmaya Sachan] []()
Plot Development
Stanford CS224N Custom Project-2023Novelty: Optimizing StreamingLLM for Novel Plot Generation [paper] [Joyce Chen, Megan Mou] []()
ArXiv-2023End to End Story Plot Generator [paper] [Hanlin Zhu, Andrew Cohen, Danqing Wang, Kevin Yang, Xiaomeng Yang, Jiantao Jiao, Yuandong Tian] []()
AAAI Workshop-2023Conveying the Predicted Future to Users: A Case Study of Story Plot Prediction [paper] [Chieh-Yang Huang, Saniya Naphade, Kavya Laalasa Karanam, Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang]RANLP-2023Coherent Story Generation with Structured Knowledge [paper] [Congda Ma, Kotaro Funakoshi, Kiyoaki Shirai, Manabu Okumura]EMNLP-2022EtriCA: Event-triggered context-aware story generation augmented by cross attention [paper] [Chen Tang, Chenghua Lin, Henglin Huang, Frank Guerin, Zhihao Zhang]INLG-2022Plot Writing From Pre-Trained Language Models [paper] [Yiping Jin, Vishakha Kadam, Dittaya Wanvarie]AAAI-2020Story Realization: Expanding Plot Events into Sentences [paper] [code] [Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Ethan Tien, Wesley Cheung, Zhaochen Luo, William Ma, Lara J. Martin, Mark O. Riedl] []()
Better Storytelling
ArXiv-2024With Greater Text Comes Greater Necessity: Inference-Time Training Helps Long Text Generation [paper] [Y. Wang, D. Ma, D. Cai] []()
PAKDD-2024LongStory: Coherent, Complete and Length Controlled Long story Generation [paper] [Kyeongman Park, Nakyeong Yang, Kyomin Jung] []()
EMNLP Findings-2023Affective and Dynamic Beam Search for Story Generation [paper] [Tenghao Huang, Ehsan Qasemi, Bangzheng Li, He Wang, Faeze Brahman, Muhao Chen, Snigdha Chaturvedi] []()
EMNLP Findings-2023GROVE: A Retrieval-augmented Complex Story Generation Framework with A Forest of Evidence [paper] [Zhihua Wen, Zhiliang Tian, Wei Wu, Yuxin Yang, Yanqi Shi, Zhen Huang, Dongsheng Li] []()
ACL-2023Open-ended Long Text Generation via Masked Language Modeling [paper] [Xiaobo Liang, Zecheng Tang, Juntao Li, Min Zhang]ArXiv-2022Future Sight: Dynamic Story Generation with Large Pretrained Language Models [paper] [Brian D. Zimmerman, Gaurav Sahu, Olga Vechtomova]ACL Workshop-2022Coherent Long Text Generation by Contrastive Soft Prompt [paper] [Guandan Chen, Jiashu Pu, Yadong Xi, Rongsheng Zhang]AACL-2022Improving Chinese Story Generation via Awareness of Syntactic Dependencies and Semantics [paper] [Henglin Huang, Chen Tang, Tyler Loakman, Frank Guerin, Chenghua Lin]AAAI-2022Generating Coherent Narratives by Learning Dynamic and Discrete Entity States with a Contrastive Framework [paper] [Jian Guan, Zhenyu Yang, Rongsheng Zhang, Zhipeng Hu, Minlie Huang]PhD Thesis-2022Great Expectations: Unsupervised Inference of Suspense, Surprise and Salience in Storytelling [paper] [David Wilmot]NAACL-2022Go Back in Time: Generating Flashbacks in Stories with Event Temporal Prompts [paper] [Rujun Han, Hong Chen, Yufei Tian, Nanyun Peng]ACL Findings-2022Event Transition Planning for Open-ended Text Generation [paper] [Qintong Li, Piji Li, Wei Bi, Zhaochun Ren, Yuxuan Lai, Lingpeng Kong]ICASSP-2022Clseg: Contrastive learning of story ending generation [paper] [Yuqiang Xie, Yue Hu, Luxi Xing, Yunpeng Li, Wei Peng, Ping Guo]ICML-2022Towards Coherent and Consistent Use of Entities in Narrative Generation [paper] [Pinelopi Papalampidi, Kris Cao, Tomas Kocisky]EMNLP Findings-2021Guiding Neural Story Generation with Reader Models [paper] [Xiangyu Peng, Kaige Xie, Amal Alabdulkarim, Harshith Kayam, Samihan Dani, Mark O. Riedl]ArXiv-2021Goal-Directed Story Generation: Augmenting Generative Language Models with Reinforcement Learning [paper] [Amal Alabdulkarim, Winston Li, Lara J. Martin, Mark O. Riedl]ArXiv-2021Automated Story Generation as Question-Answering [paper] [Louis Castricato, Spencer Frazier, Jonathan Balloch, Nitya Tarakad, Mark Riedl]ACL-2021Long text generation by modeling sentence-level and discourse-level coherence [paper] [Jian Guan, Xiaoxi Mao, Changjie Fan, Zitao Liu, Wenbiao Ding, Minlie Huang] []()
AACL-2020Cue Me In: Content-Inducing Approaches to Interactive Story Generation [paper] [Faeze Brahman, Alexandru Petrusca, Snigdha Chaturvedi]
Story Character
FDG-2024StoryVerse: Towards Co-authoring Dynamic Plot with LLM-based Character Simulation via Narrative Planning [paper] [Yi Wang, Qian Zhou, David Ledo] []()
ArXiv-2024Large Language Models Fall Short: Understanding Complex Relationships in Detective Narratives [paper] [Runcong Zhao, Qinglin Zhu, Hainiu Xu, Jiazheng Li, Yuxiang Zhou, Yulan He, Lin Gui] []()
EMNLP-2022Towards Inter-character Relationship-driven Story Generation [paper] [Anvesh Rao Vijjini, Faeze Brahman, Snigdha Chaturvedi]COLING-2022CHAE: Fine-Grained Controllable Story Generation with Characters, Actions and Emotions [paper] [Xinpeng Wang, Han Jiang, Zhihua Wei, Shanlin Zhou]ArXiv-2022A Benchmark for Understanding and Generating Dialogue between Characters in Stories [paper] [Jianzhu Yao, Ziqi Liu, Jian Guan, Minlie Huang]ECML/PKDD-2022An Ion Exchange Mechanism Inspired Story Ending Generator for Different Characters [paper] [Xinyu Jiang, Qi Zhang, Chongyang Shi, Kaiying Jiang, Liang Hu, Shoujin Wang]NAACL-2022Persona-Guided Planning for Controlling the Protagonist’s Persona in Story Generation [paper] [code] [Zhexin Zhang, Jiaxin Wen, Jian Guan, Minlie Huang]ACL-2021Unsupervised Enrichment of Persona-grounded Dialog with Background Stories [paper] [Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Julian McAuley, Harsh Jhamtani]SIGDIAL-2021Telling Stories through Multi-User Dialogue by Modeling Character Relations [paper] [Wai Man Si, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Mark O. Riedl]
Writing Style
ArXiv-2024CAT-LLM: Prompting Large Language Models with Text Style Definition for Chinese Article-style Transfer [paper] [Zhen Tao, Dinghao Xi, Zhiyu Li, Liumin Tang, Wei Xu] []()
ArXiv-2023Learning to Generate Text in Arbitrary Writing Styles [paper] [Aleem Khan, Andrew Wang, Sophia Hager, Nicholas Andrews] []()
ACL-2023StoryTrans: Non-Parallel Story Author-Style Transfer with Discourse Representations and Content Enhancing [paper] [Xuekai Zhu, Jian Guan, Minlie Huang, Juan Liu]ACL-2021Stylized story generation with style-guided planning [paper] [Xiangzhe Kong, Jialiang Huang, Ziquan Tung, Jian Guan, Minlie Huang]ACL-2020Story-level Text Style Transfer: A Proposal [paper] [Yusu Qian]
Story Planning
ArXiv-2024Navigating the Path of Writing: Outline-guided Text Generation with Large Language Models [paper] [Yukyung Lee, Soonwon Ka, Bokyung Son, Pilsung Kang, Jaewook Kang] []()
EMNLP Findings-2023Improving Pacing in Long-Form Story Planning [paper] [Yichen Wang, Kevin Yang, Xiaoming Liu, Dan Klein] []()
ArXiv-2023EIPE-text: Evaluation-Guided Iterative Plan Extraction for Long-Form Narrative Text Generation [paper] [Wang You, Wenshan Wu, Yaobo Liang, Shaoguang Mao, Chenfei Wu, Maosong Cao, Yuzhe Cai, Yiduo Guo, Yan Xia, Furu Wei, Nan Duan] []()
ArXiv-2023RLCD: Reinforcement Learning from Contrast Distillation for Language Model Alignment [paper] [Kevin Yang, Dan Klein, Asli Celikyilmaz, Nanyun Peng, Yuandong Tian] []()
ArXiv-2023Enhancing Generation through Summarization Duality and Explicit Outline Control [paper] [Yunzhe Li, Qian Chen, Weixiang Yan, Wen Wang, Qinglin Zhang, Hari Sundaram] []()
ArXiv-2022Little Red Riding Hood Goes Around the Globe:Crosslingual Story Planning and Generation with Large Language Models [paper] [Evgeniia Razumovskaia, Joshua Maynez, Annie Louis, Mirella Lapata, Shashi Narayan]ACL-2023DOC: Improving Long Story Coherence With Detailed Outline Control [paper] [code] [Kevin Yang, Dan Klein, Nanyun Peng, Yuandong Tian]ArXiv-2022Neural Story Planning [paper] [Anbang Ye, Christopher Cui, Taiwei Shi, Mark O. Riedl]EMNLP-2022Re3: Generating longer stories with recursive reprompting and revision [paper] [Kevin Yang, Yuandong Tian, Nanyun Peng, Dan Klein] []()
AAAI-2021Narrative Plan Generation with Self-Supervised Learning [paper] [Mihai Polceanu, Julie Porteous, Alan Lindsay, Marc Cavazza]INLG-2021GraphPlan: Story Generation by Planning with Event Graph [paper] [Hong Chen, Raphael Shu, Hiroya Takamura, Hideki Nakayama]EMNLP-2020Content Planning for Neural Story Generation with Aristotelian Rescoring [paper] [Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Ralph Weischedel, Nanyun Peng] []()
AAAI-2020Draft and Edit: Automatic Storytelling Through Multi-Pass Hierarchical Conditional Variational Autoencoder [paper] [Meng-Hsuan Yu, Juntao Li, Danyang Liu, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan, Bo Tang, Haisong Zhang]ACL-2019Strategies for Structuring Story Generation [paper] [Angela Fan, Mike Lewis, Yann Dauphin] []()
AAAI-2019Plan-And-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling [paper] [code] [Lili Yao, Nanyun Peng, Ralph Weischedel, Kevin Knight, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan] []()
EMNLP-2018A Skeleton-Based Model for Promoting Coherence Among Sentences in Narrative Story Generation [paper] [code] [Jingjing Xu, Xuancheng Ren, Yi Zhang, Qi Zeng, Xiaoyan Cai, Xu Sun] []()
ACL-2018Hierarchical Neural Story Generation [paper] [code] [writing prompt] [Angela Fan, Mike Lewis, Yann Dauphin] []()
AAAI-2018Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets [paper] [code] [Lara J. Martin, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Xinyu Wang, William Hancock, Shruti Singh, Brent Harrison, Mark O. Riedl] []()
Controllable Story
ACL-2024MoPS: Modular Story Premise Synthesis for Open-Ended Automatic Story Generation [paper] [code] [Yan Ma, Yu Qiao, Pengfei Liu] []()
ArXiv-2024Returning to the Start: Generating Narratives with Related Endpoints [paper] [code] [Anneliese Brei, Chao Zhao, Snigdha Chaturvedi]ArXiv-2024LiFi: Lightweight Controlled Text Generation with Fine-Grained Control Codes [paper] [Chufan Shi, Deng Cai, Yujiu Yang]INLG-2023Controlling keywords and their positions in text generation [paper] [Yuichi Sasazawa, Terufumi Morishita, Hiroaki Ozaki, Osamu Imaichi, Yasuhiro Sogawa]COLING-2022Psychology-guided Controllable Story Generation [paper] [Yuqiang Xie, Yue Hu, Yunpeng Li, Guanqun Bi, Luxi Xing, Wei Peng]WWW-2022Genre-controllable story generation via supervised contrastive learning [paper] [JinUk Cho, MinSu Jeong, JinYeong Bak, Yun-Gyung Cheong]EMNLP Findings-2021A Plug-and-Play Method for Controlled Text Generation [paper] [code] [Damian Pascual, Beni Egressy, Clara Meister, Ryan Cotterell, Roger Wattenhofer] []()
NUSE-2021Plug-and-Blend: A Framework for Controllable Story Generation with Blended Control Codes [paper] [code] [Zhiyu Lin, Mark Riedl]ArXiv-2021Transformer-based Conditional Variational Autoencoder for Controllable Story Generation [paper] [code] [Le Fang, Tao Zeng, Chaochun Liu, Liefeng Bo, Wen Dong, Changyou Chen] []()
ArXiv-2021Outline to Story: Fine-grained Controllable Story Generation from Cascaded Events [paper] [Le Fang, Tao Zeng, Chaochun Liu, Liefeng Bo, Wen Dong, Changyou Chen]EMNLP-2020MEGATRON-CNTRL: Controllable story generation with external knowledge using large-scale language models [paper] [Peng Xu, Mostofa Patwary, Mohammad Shoeybi, Raul Puri, Pascale Fung, Anima Anandkumar, Bryan Catanzaro] []()
ACL-2019Learning to Control the Fine-grained Sentiment for Story Ending Generation [paper] [Fuli Luo, Damai Dai, Pengcheng Yang, Tianyu Liu, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui, Xu Sun]IJCAI-2019Controllable Neural Story Plot Generation via Reward Shaping [paper] [Pradyumna Tambwekar, Murtaza Dhuliawala, Lara J. Martin, Animesh Mehta, Brent Harrison, Mark O. Riedl] []()
ACL-2018Towards Controllable Story Generation [paper] [Nanyun Peng, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Jonathan May, Kevin Knight] []()
Reasonable Story
SIGIR-2022What makes the story forward? inferring commonsense explanations as prompts for future event generation [paper] [Li Lin, Yixin Cao, Lifu Huang, Shu'ang Li, Xuming Hu, Lijie Wen, Jianmin Wang]EMNLP Findings-2022Inferring the Reader: Guiding Automated Story Generation with Commonsense Reasoning [paper] [Xiangyu Peng, Siyan Li, Sarah Wiegreffe, Mark Riedl]AAAI-2021Automated Storytelling via Causal, Commonsense Plot Ordering [paper] [Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Wesley Cheung, William Broniec, Mark O. Riedl] []()
AIIDE-2020Bringing Stories Alive: Generating Interactive Fiction Worlds [paper] [code] [Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Wesley Cheung, Dan Tu, William Broniec, Mark O. Riedl]TACL-2020A Knowledge-Enhanced Pretraining Model for Commonsense Story Generation [paper] [Jian Guan, Fei Huang, Zhihao Zhao, Xiaoyan Zhu, Minlie Huang] []()
EMNLP-2020Improving Neural Story Generation by Targeted Common Sense Grounding [paper] [code] [Huanru Henry Mao, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Julian McAuley, Garrison W. Cottrell]AAAI-2019Story Ending Generation with Incremental Encoding and Commonsense Knowledge [paper] [Jian Guan, Yansen Wang, Minlie Huang] []()
Benchmark
Evaluation
TACL-2024Do Language Models Enjoy Their Own Stories? Prompting Large Language Models for Automatic Story Evaluation [paper] [Cyril Chhun, Fabian M. Suchanek, Chloé Clavel] []()
Arxiv-2024Reading Subtext: Evaluating Large Language Models on Short Story Summarization with Writers [paper] [Melanie Subbiah, Sean Zhang, Lydia B. Chilton, Kathleen McKeown] []()
ArXiv-2023Experimental Narratives: A Comparison of Human Crowdsourced Storytelling and AI Storytelling [paper] [Nina Begus] []()
ArXiv-2023Learning Personalized Story Evaluation [paper] [Danqing Wang, Kevin Yang, Hanlin Zhu, Xiaomeng Yang, Andrew Cohen, Lei Li, Yuandong Tian] []()
ArXiv-2023BooookScore: A systematic exploration of book-length summarization in the era of LLMs[paper][Yapei Chang, Kyle Lo, Tanya Goyal, Mohit Iyyer] []()
ArXiv-2023TIGERScore: Towards Building Explainable Metric for All Text Generation Tasks[paper][Dongfu Jiang, Yishan Li, Ge Zhang, Wenhao Huang, Bill Yuchen Lin, Wenhu Chen] []()
CHI-2023Art or Artifice? Large Language Models and the False Promise of Creativity [paper] [Tuhin Chakrabarty, Philippe Laban, Divyansh Agarwal, Smaranda Muresan, Chien-Sheng Wu] []()
ACL-2023HAUSER: Towards Holistic and Automatic Evaluation of Simile Generation [paper] [Qianyu He, Yikai Zhang, Jiaqing Liang, Yuncheng Huang, Yanghua Xiao, Yunwen Chen]ACL-2023Can Large Language Models Be an Alternative to Human Evaluations? [paper] [Cheng-Han Chiang, Hung-yi Lee] []()
ArXiv-2023DeltaScore: Evaluating Story Generation with Differentiating Perturbations [paper] [Zhuohan Xie, Miao Li, Trevor Cohn, Jey Han Lau] []()
INLG-2023The Next Chapter: A Study of Large Language Models in Storytelling [paper] [Zhuohan Xie, Trevor Cohn, Jey Han Lau] []()
IEEE Access-2023Comparison of Evaluation Metrics for Short Story Generation [paper] [P. Netisopakul, Usanisa Taoto]EMNLP-2022StoryER: Automatic Story Evaluation via Ranking, Rating and Reasoning [paper] [Hong Chen, Duc Minh Vo, Hiroya Takamura, Yusuke Miyao, Hideki Nakayama]COLING-2022Of Human Criteria and Automatic Metrics: A Benchmark of the Evaluation of Story Generation [paper] [Cyril Chhun, Pierre Colombo, Chloé Clavel, Fabian M. Suchanek]TACL-2022LOT: A story-centric benchmark for evaluating Chinese long text understanding and generation [paper] [Jian Guan, Zhuoer Feng, Yamei Chen, Ruilin He, Xiaoxi Mao, Changjie Fan, Minlie Huang]ACL-2021Openmeva: A benchmark for evaluating open-ended story generation metrics [paper] [Jian Guan, Zhexin Zhang, Zhuoer Feng, Zitao Liu, Wenbiao Ding, Xiaoxi Mao, Changjie Fan, Minlie Huang] []()
EMNLP-2020Union: An unreferenced metric for evaluating open-ended story generation [paper] [code] [Jian Guan, Minlie Huang] []()
CoNLL-2019Do Massively Pretrained Language Models Make Better Storytellers? [paper] [code] [Abigail See, Aneesh Pappu, Rohun Saxena, Akhila Yerukola, Christopher D. Manning] []()
NAACL-2016A Corpus and Evaluation Framework for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Stories [paper] [Nasrin Mostafazadeh, Nathanael Chambers, Xiaodong He, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, Lucy Vanderwende, Pushmeet Kohli, James Allen] []()
Dataset
ArXiv-2024CollabStory: Multi-LLM Collaborative Story Generation and Authorship Analysis [paper] [Saranya Venkatraman, Nafis Irtiza Tripto, Dongwon Lee] []()
IREC-COLING-2024Reflections & Resonance: Two-Agent Partnership for Advancing LLM-based Story Annotation [paper] [Yuetian Chen, Mei Si] []()
ArXiv-2024CMDAG: A Chinese Metaphor Dataset with Annotated Grounds as CoT for Boosting Metaphor Generation [paper] [Yujie Shao, Xinrong Yao, Xingwei Qu, Chenghua Lin, Shi Wang, Stephen W. Huang, Ge Zhang, Jie Fu] []()
ArXiv-2023STONYBOOK: A System and Resource for Large-Scale Analysis of Novels [paper] [Charuta Pethe, Allen Kim, Rajesh Prabhakar, Tanzir Pial, Steven Skiena]ACL-2023StoryWars: A Dataset and Instruction Tuning Baselines for Collaborative Story Understanding and Generation [paper] [Yulun Du, Lydia Chilton] []()
TACL-2023PASTA: A Dataset for Modeling Participant States in Narratives [paper] [Sayontan Ghosh, Mahnaz Koupaee, Isabella Chen, Francis Ferraro, Nathanael Chambers, Niranjan Balasubramanian]NAACL-2022A corpus for understanding and generating moral stories [paper] [Jian Guan, Ziqi Liu, Minlie Huang]EVAL4NLP-2021StoryDB: Broad Multi-language Narrative Dataset [paper] [Alexey Tikhonov, Igor Samenko, Ivan P. Yamshchikov]ACL-2022SummScreen: A Dataset for Abstractive Screenplay Summarization [paper] [data] [Mingda Chen, Zewei Chu, Sam Wiseman, Kevin Gimpel] []()
Arxiv-2021TVStoryGen: A Dataset for Generating Stories with Character Descriptions [paper] [Mingda Chen, Kevin Gimpel]EMNLP-2020STORIUM: A Dataset and Evaluation Platform for Machine-in-the-Loop Story Generation [paper] [Nader Akoury, Shufan Wang, Josh Whiting, Stephen Hood, Nanyun Peng, Mohit Iyyer] []()
Others
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ArXiv-2024Ai.llude: Encouraging Rewriting AI-Generated Text to Support Creative Expression [paper] [David Zhou, Sarah Sterman]ArXiv-2024Word2World: Generating Stories and Worlds through Large Language Models [paper] [code] [Muhammad U. Nasir, Steven James, Julian Togelius]ArXiv-2024Let Storytelling Tell Vivid Stories: An Expressive and Fluent Multimodal Storyteller [paper] [Chuanqi Zang, Jiji Tang, Rongsheng Zhang, Zeng Zhao, Tangjie Lv, Mingtao Pei, Wei Liang]CHI-2024Shaping Human-AI Collaboration: Varied Scaffolding Levels in Co-writing with Language Models [paper] [Paramveer S. Dhillon, Somayeh Molaei, Jiaqi Li, Maximilian Golub, Shaochun Zheng, Lionel P. Robert]Arxiv-2024GhostWriter: Augmenting Collaborative Human-AI Writing Experiences Through Personalization and Agency [paper] [Catherine Yeh, Gonzalo Ramos, Rachel Ng, Andy Huntington, Richard Banks]ArXiv-2023Inspo: Writing Stories with a Flock of AIs and Humans [paper] [Chieh-Yang Huang, Sanjana Gautam, Shannon McClellan Brooks, Ya-Fang Lin, Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang]AAAI-2023SceneCraft: Automating Interactive Narrative Scene Generation in Digital Games with Large Language Models [paper] [Vikram Kumaran, Jonathan Rowe, Bradford Mott, James Lester]ArXiv-2023PEARL: Personalizing Large Language Model Writing Assistants with Generation-Calibrated Retrievers [paper] [Sheshera Mysore, Zhuoran Lu, Mengting Wan, Longqi Yang, Steve Menezes, Tina Baghaee, Emmanuel Barajas Gonzalez, Jennifer Neville, Tara Safavi]EMNLP Findings-2023Are NLP Models Good at Tracing Thoughts: An Overview of Narrative Understanding [paper] [Lixing Zhu, Runcong Zhao, Lin Gui, Yulan He]CoNLL Workshop-2023BabyStories: Can Reinforcement Learning Teach Baby Language Models to Write Better Stories? [paper] [Xingmeng Zhao, Tongnian Wang, Sheri Osborn, Anthony Rios]ArXiv-2023Creativity Support in the Age of Large Language Models: An Empirical Study Involving Emerging Writers [paper] [Tuhin Chakrabarty, Vishakh Padmakumar, Faeze Brahman, Smaranda Muresan]UIST-2023Storyfier: Exploring Vocabulary Learning Support with Text Generation Models [paper] [Zhenhui Peng, Xingbo Wang, Qiushi Han, Junkai Zhu, Xiaojuan Ma, Huamin Qu]PACLIC-2023Generating Character Lines in Four-Panel Manga [paper] [Michimasa Inaba]ArXiv-2022Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers [paper] [Daphne Ippolito, Ann Yuan, Andy Coenen, Sehmon Burnam]ArXiv-2022Survey: Automatic Movie Plot and Script Generation [paper] [Prerak Gandhi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya]CHI-2022TaleBrush: Sketching Stories with Generative Pretrained Language Models [paper] [John Joon Young Chung, Wooseok Kim, Kang Min Yoo, Hwaran Lee, Eytan Adar, Minsuk Chang]EMNLP-2022Help me write a poem: Instruction Tuning as a Vehicle for Collaborative Poetry Writing [paper] [Tuhin Chakrabarty, Vishakh Padmakumar, He He]CHI-2023Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: An Evaluation by Industry Professionals [paper] [Piotr Mirowski, Kory W. Mathewson, Jaylen Pittman, Richard Evans]NeurIPS-2022Factuality Enhanced Language Models for Open-Ended Text Generation [paper] [Nayeon Lee, Wei Ping, Peng Xu, Mostofa Patwary, Mohammad Shoeybi, Bryan Catanzaro]FDG-2022TropeTwist: Trope-based Narrative Structure Generation [paper] [Alberto Alvarez, Jose Font]IUI-2022Wordcraft: Story Writing With Large Language Models [paper] [Ann Yuan, Andy Coenen, Emily Reif, Daphne Ippolito]ACM Computing Surveys-2023A Survey of Controllable Text Generation Using Transformer-based Pre-trained Language Models [paper] [Hanqing Zhang, Haolin Song, Shaoyu Li, Ming Zhou, Dawei Song]ACL-IJCNLP-2021KuiLeiXi: a Chinese Open-Ended Text Adventure Game [paper] [Heng Ji, Jong C. Park, Rui Xia]IJCAI AI4Narratives-2020THEaiTRE: Artificial Intelligence to Write a Theatre Play [paper] [Rudolf Rosa, Ondřej Dušek, Tom Kocmi, David Mareček, Tomáš Musil, Patrícia Schmidtová, Dominik Jurko, Ondřej Bojar, Daniel Hrbek, David Košťák, Martina Kinská, Josef Doležal, Klára Vosecká]ICCC-2020Toward Automated Quest Generation in Text-Adventure Games [paper] [Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, William Broniec, Alex Mueller, Jeremy Paul, Mark O. Riedl]
Public Resources
- Understanding AI for Stories serves as a survey blog that delves into the application of AI in the realm of story generation, shedding light on its potential as well as the challenges that it encounters.
- ROC Stories is a compilation of 100,000 five-sentence stories and 3,742 Story Cloze Test stories, capturing a rich array of causal and temporal commonsense connections between everyday events, making it suitable for story generation tasks.
- CommonGen was developed by combining crowdsourced and existing caption corpora, containing 79k commonsense descriptions across 35k distinct concept-sets.
- CMU Movie Summary Corpus offers access to a dataset containing movie plot summaries and related metadata.
- Scifi TV Show Plot Summaries & Events is a collection of plot synopses for long-running (80+ episodes) science fiction TV shows, sourced from Fandom.com wikis.