Narrative Generation in the Wild: Methods from NaNoGenMo

Judith van Stegeren; Mariët  Theune

Narrative Generation in the Wild: Methods from NaNoGenMo

Judith van Stegeren
, Mariët Theune

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Abstract

In text generation, generating long stories is still a challenge. Coherence tends to decrease rapidly as the output length increases. Especially for generated stories, coherence of the narrative is an important quality aspect of the output text. In this paper we examine how narrative coherence is attained in the submissions of NaNoGenMo 2018, an online text generation event where participants are challenged to generate a 50,000 word novel. We list the main approaches that were used to generate coherent narratives and link them to scientific literature. Finally, we give recommendations on when to use which approach.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Storytelling
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Second Workshop, August 1, 2019, Florence Italy
Editors	Francis Ferraro, Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang, Stephanie Lukin, Margaret Mitchell
Place of Publication	Florence, Italy
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	65-74
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2019
Event	2nd Workshop on Storytelling 2019 - Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy Duration: 1 Aug 2019 → 1 Aug 2019 Conference number: 2 http://www.visionandlanguage.net/workshop2019/

Workshop

Workshop	2nd Workshop on Storytelling 2019
Abbreviated title	StoryNLP
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	1/08/19 → 1/08/19
Internet address	http://www.visionandlanguage.net/workshop2019/

Keywords

NaNoGenMo
Natural language generation
Story generation
Narrative generation

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van Stegeren, J & Theune, M 2019, Narrative Generation in the Wild: Methods from NaNoGenMo. in F Ferraro, T-HK Huang, S Lukin & M Mitchell (eds), Storytelling: Proceedings of the Second Workshop, August 1, 2019, Florence Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Florence, Italy, pp. 65-74, 2nd Workshop on Storytelling 2019, Florence, Italy, 1/08/19. <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-34>

Narrative Generation in the Wild: Methods from NaNoGenMo. / van Stegeren, Judith; Theune, Mariët .
Storytelling: Proceedings of the Second Workshop, August 1, 2019, Florence Italy. ed. / Francis Ferraro; Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang; Stephanie Lukin; Margaret Mitchell. Florence, Italy: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019. p. 65-74.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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