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Shadow-Loom: Causal Reasoning over Graphical World Models of Narratives
David Wilmot
Stories hold a reader's attention because they have causes, secrets, and consequences. Shadow-Loom is an experimental open-source framework that turns a narrative into a versioned…
Great Expectations: Unsupervised Inference of Suspense, Surprise and Salience in Storytelling
David Wilmot
Stories interest us not because they are a sequence of mundane and predictable events but because they have drama and tension. Crucial to creating dramatic and exciting stories are…
A Temporal Variational Model for Story Generation
David Wilmot, Frank Keller
Recent language models can generate interesting and grammatically correct text in story generation but often lack plot development and long-term coherence. This paper experiments w…
Memory and Knowledge Augmented Language Models for Inferring Salience in Long-Form Stories
David Wilmot, Frank Keller
Measuring event salience is essential in the understanding of stories. This paper takes a recent unsupervised method for salience detection derived from Barthes Cardinal Functions…
Modelling Suspense in Short Stories as Uncertainty Reduction over Neural Representation
David Wilmot, Frank Keller
Suspense is a crucial ingredient of narrative fiction, engaging readers and making stories compelling. While there is a vast theoretical literature on suspense, it is computational…