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MLD-EA: Check and Complete Narrative Coherence by Introducing Emotions and Actions

Jinming Zhang, Yunfei Long

Abstract

Narrative understanding and story generation are critical challenges in natural language processing (NLP), with much of the existing research focused on summarization and question-answering tasks. While previous studies have explored predicting plot endings and generating extended narratives, they often neglect the logical coherence within stories, leaving a significant gap in the field. To address this, we introduce the Missing Logic Detector by Emotion and Action (MLD-EA) model, which leverages large language models (LLMs) to identify narrative gaps and generate coherent sentences that integrate seamlessly with the story’s emotional and logical flow. The experimental results demonstrate that the MLD-EA model enhances narrative understanding and story generation, highlighting LLMs’ potential as effective logic checkers in story writing with logical coherence and emotional consistency. This work fills a gap in NLP research and advances border goals of creating more sophisticated and reliable story-generation systems.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{zhang-long-2025-mld,
    title = "{MLD}-{EA}: Check and Complete Narrative Coherence by Introducing Emotions and Actions",
    author = "Zhang, Jinming  and
      Long, Yunfei",
    editor = "Rambow, Owen  and
      Wanner, Leo  and
      Apidianaki, Marianna  and
      Al-Khalifa, Hend  and
      Eugenio, Barbara Di  and
      Schockaert, Steven",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = jan,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.129/",
    pages = "1892--1907"
}
MLD-EA: Check and Complete Narrative Coherence by Introducing Emotions and Actions · COLING 2025