Unsupervised Hierarchical Story Infilling

Daphne Ippolito, David Grangier, Chris Callison-Burch, Douglas Eck


Abstract
Story infilling involves predicting words to go into a missing span from a story. This challenging task has the potential to transform interactive tools for creative writing. However, state-of-the-art conditional language models have trouble balancing fluency and coherence with novelty and diversity. We address this limitation with a hierarchical model which first selects a set of rare words and then generates text conditioned on that set. By relegating the high entropy task of picking rare words to a word-sampling model, the second-stage model conditioned on those words can achieve high fluency and coherence by searching for likely sentences, without sacrificing diversity.
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W19-2405
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Narrative Understanding
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June
Year:
2019
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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David Bamman, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Elizabeth Clark, Madalina Fiterau, Mohit Iyyer
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WNU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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37–43
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-2405
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-2405
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Daphne Ippolito, David Grangier, Chris Callison-Burch, and Douglas Eck. 2019. Unsupervised Hierarchical Story Infilling. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Narrative Understanding, pages 37–43, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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