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%T BOOKWORLD: From Novels to Interactive Agent Societies for Story Creation
%A Ran, Yiting
%A Wang, Xintao
%A Qiu, Tian
%A Liang, Jiaqing
%A Xiao, Yanghua
%A Yang, Deqing
%Y Che, Wanxiang
%Y Nabende, Joyce
%Y Shutova, Ekaterina
%Y Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher
%S Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2025
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Vienna, Austria
%@ 979-8-89176-251-0
%F ran-etal-2025-bookworld
%X Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled social simulation through multi-agent systems. Prior efforts focus on agent societies created from scratch, assigning agents with newly defined personas. However, simulating established fictional worlds and characters remain largely underexplored, despite its significant practical value. In this paper, we introduce BookWorld, a comprehensive system for constructing and simulating book-based multi-agent societies. BookWorld’s design covers comprehensive real-world intricacies, including diverse and dynamic characters, fictional worldviews, geographical constraints and changes, e.t.c. BookWorld enables diverse applications including story generation, interactive games and social simulation, offering novel ways to extend and explore beloved fictional works. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that BookWorld generates creative, high-quality stories while maintaining fidelity to the source books, surpassing previous methods with a win rate of 75.36%. The code and demo of this paper can be found at the project page: https://bookworld2025.github.io/.
%R 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.773
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[BOOKWORLD: From Novels to Interactive Agent Societies for Story Creation](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.773/) (Ran et al., ACL 2025)

• BOOKWORLD: From Novels to Interactive Agent Societies for Story Creation (Ran et al., ACL 2025)

ACL

• Yiting Ran, Xintao Wang, Tian Qiu, Jiaqing Liang, Yanghua Xiao, and Deqing Yang. 2025. BOOKWORLD: From Novels to Interactive Agent Societies for Story Creation. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 15898–15912, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.