Automatic story generation: A survey of approaches

AI Alhussain, AM Azmi - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
Computational generation of stories is a subfield of computational creativity where artificial
intelligence and psychology intersect to teach computers how to mimic humans' creativity. It …

Re3: Generating longer stories with recursive reprompting and revision

K Yang, Y Tian, N Peng, D Klein - arxiv preprint arxiv:2210.06774, 2022 - arxiv.org
We consider the problem of automatically generating longer stories of over two thousand
words. Compared to prior work on shorter stories, long-range plot coherence and relevance …

Automatic story generation: Challenges and attempts

A Alabdulkarim, S Li, X Peng - arxiv preprint arxiv:2102.12634, 2021 - arxiv.org
The scope of this survey paper is to explore the challenges in automatic story generation.
We hope to contribute in the following ways: 1. Explore how previous research in story …

TaleBrush: Sketching stories with generative pretrained language models

JJY Chung, W Kim, KM Yoo, H Lee, E Adar… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
While advanced text generation algorithms (eg, GPT-3) have enabled writers to co-create
stories with an AI, guiding the narrative remains a challenge. Existing systems often …

Scenecraft: Automating interactive narrative scene generation in digital games with large language models

V Kumaran, J Rowe, B Mott, J Lester - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Creating engaging interactive story-based experiences dynamically responding to individual
player choices poses significant challenges for narrative-centered games. Recent advances …

Plug-and-blend: a framework for plug-and-play controllable story generation with sketches

Z Lin, MO Riedl - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
Large pre-trained neural language models (LM) have very powerful text generation
capabilities. However, in practice, they are hard to control for creative purposes. We …

GROVE: a retrieval-augmented complex story generation framework with a forest of evidence

Z Wen, Z Tian, W Wu, Y Yang, Y Shi, Z Huang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Conditional story generation is significant in human-machine interaction, particularly in
producing stories with complex plots. While Large language models (LLMs) perform well on …

[HTML][HTML] An AI-powered approach to the semiotic reconstruction of narratives

ES de Lima, MME Neggers, B Feijó… - Entertainment …, 2025 - Elsevier
This article presents a novel and highly interactive process to generate natural language
narratives based on our ongoing work on semiotic relations, providing four criteria for …

Plug-and-blend: A framework for controllable story generation with blended control codes

Z Lin, M Riedl - arxiv preprint arxiv:2104.04039, 2021 - arxiv.org
Large pre-trained neural language models (LM) have very powerful text generation
capabilities. However, in practice, they are hard to control for creative purposes. We …

Goal-directed story generation: Augmenting generative language models with reinforcement learning

A Alabdulkarim, W Li, LJ Martin, MO Riedl - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The advent of large pre-trained generative language models has provided a common
framework for AI story generation via sampling the model to create sequences that continue …