Inspiration through Observation: Demonstrating the Influence of Automatically Generated Text on Creative Writing

Understand

Getting machines to generate text perceived as creative is a long-pursued goal.

• A growing body of research directs this goal towards augmenting the creative writing abilities of human authors.
• In this paper, we pursue this objective by analyzing how observing examples of automatically generated text influences writing.
• In particular, we examine a task referred to as sentence infilling, which involves transforming a list of words into a complete sentence.