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title = "How to tame your plotline: A framework for goal-driven interactive fairy tale generation",
author = "Ermolaeva, Marina and
Shakhmatova, Anastasia and
Nepomnyashchikh, Alina and
Fenogenova, Alena",
editor = "Lal, Yash Kumar and
Clark, Elizabeth and
Iyyer, Mohit and
Chaturvedi, Snigdha and
Brei, Anneliese and
Brahman, Faeze and
Chandu, Khyathi Raghavi",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the The 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.wnu-1.2",
pages = "8--31",
abstract = "Automatic storytelling is a difficult NLP task that poses a challenge even for state-of-the-art large language models. This paper proposes a pipeline for interactive fairy tale generation in a mixed-initiative setting. Our approach introduces a story goal as a stopping condition, imposes minimal structure on the narrative in the form of a simple emotional arc, and controls the transition between the stages of the story via system prompt engineering. The resulting framework reconciles creating a structured and complete short-form narrative with retaining player agency and allowing users to influence the storyline through their input. We evaluate our approach with several proprietary and open-source language models and examine its transferability to different languages, specifically English and Russian.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T How to tame your plotline: A framework for goal-driven interactive fairy tale generation
%A Ermolaeva, Marina
%A Shakhmatova, Anastasia
%A Nepomnyashchikh, Alina
%A Fenogenova, Alena
%Y Lal, Yash Kumar
%Y Clark, Elizabeth
%Y Iyyer, Mohit
%Y Chaturvedi, Snigdha
%Y Brei, Anneliese
%Y Brahman, Faeze
%Y Chandu, Khyathi Raghavi
%S Proceedings of the The 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding
%D 2024
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Miami, Florida, USA
%F ermolaeva-etal-2024-tame
%X Automatic storytelling is a difficult NLP task that poses a challenge even for state-of-the-art large language models. This paper proposes a pipeline for interactive fairy tale generation in a mixed-initiative setting. Our approach introduces a story goal as a stopping condition, imposes minimal structure on the narrative in the form of a simple emotional arc, and controls the transition between the stages of the story via system prompt engineering. The resulting framework reconciles creating a structured and complete short-form narrative with retaining player agency and allowing users to influence the storyline through their input. We evaluate our approach with several proprietary and open-source language models and examine its transferability to different languages, specifically English and Russian.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.wnu-1.2
%P 8-31
Markdown (Informal)
[How to tame your plotline: A framework for goal-driven interactive fairy tale generation](https://aclanthology.org/2024.wnu-1.2) (Ermolaeva et al., WNU 2024)
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