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title = "Plan-{CVAE}: A Planning-based Conditional Variational Autoencoder for Story Generation",
author = "Wang, Lin and
Li, Juntao and
Yan, Rui and
Zhao, Dongyan",
editor = "Sun, Maosong and
Li, Sujian and
Zhang, Yue and
Liu, Yang",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = oct,
year = "2020",
address = "Haikou, China",
publisher = "Chinese Information Processing Society of China",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.ccl-1.83",
pages = "892--902",
abstract = "Story generation is a challenging task of automatically creating natural languages to describe a sequence of events, which requires outputting text with not only a consistent topic but also novel wordings. Although many approaches have been proposed and obvious progress has been made on this task, there is still a large room for improvement, especially for improving thematic consistency and wording diversity. To mitigate the gap between generated stories and those written by human writers, in this paper, we propose a planning-based conditional variational autoencoder, namely Plan-CVAE, which first plans a keyword sequence and then generates a story based on the keyword sequence. In our method, the keywords planning strategy is used to improve thematic consistency while the CVAE module allows enhancing wording diversity. Experimental results on a benchmark dataset confirm that our proposed method can generate stories with both thematic consistency and wording novelty, and outperforms state-of-the-art methods on both automatic metrics and human evaluations.",
language = "English",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Plan-CVAE: A Planning-based Conditional Variational Autoencoder for Story Generation
%A Wang, Lin
%A Li, Juntao
%A Yan, Rui
%A Zhao, Dongyan
%Y Sun, Maosong
%Y Li, Sujian
%Y Zhang, Yue
%Y Liu, Yang
%S Proceedings of the 19th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics
%D 2020
%8 October
%I Chinese Information Processing Society of China
%C Haikou, China
%G English
%F wang-etal-2020-plan
%X Story generation is a challenging task of automatically creating natural languages to describe a sequence of events, which requires outputting text with not only a consistent topic but also novel wordings. Although many approaches have been proposed and obvious progress has been made on this task, there is still a large room for improvement, especially for improving thematic consistency and wording diversity. To mitigate the gap between generated stories and those written by human writers, in this paper, we propose a planning-based conditional variational autoencoder, namely Plan-CVAE, which first plans a keyword sequence and then generates a story based on the keyword sequence. In our method, the keywords planning strategy is used to improve thematic consistency while the CVAE module allows enhancing wording diversity. Experimental results on a benchmark dataset confirm that our proposed method can generate stories with both thematic consistency and wording novelty, and outperforms state-of-the-art methods on both automatic metrics and human evaluations.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.ccl-1.83
%P 892-902
Markdown (Informal)
[Plan-CVAE: A Planning-based Conditional Variational Autoencoder for Story Generation](https://aclanthology.org/2020.ccl-1.83) (Wang et al., CCL 2020)
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