Plan-And-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling

Understand

Automatic storytelling is challenging since it requires generating long, coherent natural language to describes a sensible sequence of events.

• Despite considerable efforts on automatic story generation in the past, prior work either is restricted in plot planning, or can only generate stories in a narrow domain.
• In this paper, we explore open-domain story generation that writes stories given a title (topic) as input.
• We propose a plan-and-write hierarchical generation framework that first plans a storyline, and then generates a story based on the storyline.