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A Benchmark for Understanding and Generating Dialogue between Characters in Stories
Jianzhu Yao, Ziqi Liu, Jian Guan +1
Many classical fairy tales, fiction, and screenplays leverage dialogue to advance story plots and establish characters. We present the first study to explore whether machines can u…
StoryTrans: Non-Parallel Story Author-Style Transfer with Discourse Representations and Content Enhancing
Xuekai Zhu, Jian Guan, Minlie Huang +1
Non-parallel text style transfer is an important task in natural language generation. However, previous studies concentrate on the token or sentence level, such as sentence sentime…
Generating Coherent Narratives by Learning Dynamic and Discrete Entity States with a Contrastive Framework
Jian Guan, Zhenyu Yang, Rongsheng Zhang +2
Despite advances in generating fluent texts, existing pretraining models tend to attach incoherent event sequences to involved entities when generating narratives such as stories a…
Persona-Guided Planning for Controlling the Protagonist's Persona in Story Generation
Zhexin Zhang, Jiaxin Wen, Jian Guan +1
Endowing the protagonist with a specific personality is essential for writing an engaging story. In this paper, we aim to control the protagonist's persona in story generation, i.e…
A Corpus for Understanding and Generating Moral Stories
Jian Guan, Ziqi Liu, Minlie Huang
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.…