COLING 2020main7 citations

Story Generation with Rich Details

Fangzhou Zhai, Vera Demberg, Alexander Koller

Abstract

Automatically generated stories need to be not only coherent, but also interesting. Apart from realizing a story line, the text also needs to include rich details to engage the readers. We propose a model that features two different generation components: an outliner, which proceeds the main story line to realize global coherence; a detailer, which supplies relevant details to the story in a locally coherent manner. Human evaluations show our model substantially improves the informativeness of generated text while retaining its coherence, outperforming various baselines.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{zhai-etal-2020-story,
    title = "Story Generation with Rich Details",
    author = "Zhai, Fangzhou  and
      Demberg, Vera  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    editor = "Scott, Donia  and
      Bel, Nuria  and
      Zong, Chengqing",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
    publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.212/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.212",
    pages = "2346--2351"
}