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title = "Modeling Protagonist Emotions for Emotion-Aware Storytelling",
author = "Brahman, Faeze and
Chaturvedi, Snigdha",
editor = "Webber, Bonnie and
Cohn, Trevor and
He, Yulan and
Liu, Yang",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)",
month = nov,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.426",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.426",
pages = "5277--5294",
abstract = "Emotions and their evolution play a central role in creating a captivating story. In this paper, we present the first study on modeling the emotional trajectory of the protagonist in neural storytelling. We design methods that generate stories that adhere to given story titles and desired emotion arcs for the protagonist. Our models include Emotion Supervision (EmoSup) and two Emotion-Reinforced (EmoRL) models. The EmoRL models use special rewards designed to regularize the story generation process through reinforcement learning. Our automatic and manual evaluations demonstrate that these models are significantly better at generating stories that follow the desired emotion arcs compared to baseline methods, without sacrificing story quality.",
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%A Brahman, Faeze
%A Chaturvedi, Snigdha
%Y Webber, Bonnie
%Y Cohn, Trevor
%Y He, Yulan
%Y Liu, Yang
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Markdown (Informal)
[Modeling Protagonist Emotions for Emotion-Aware Storytelling](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.426) (Brahman & Chaturvedi, EMNLP 2020)
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