What Makes the Story Forward? Inferring Commonsense Explanations as Prompts for Future Event Generation

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Prediction over event sequences is critical for many real-world applications in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing.

• Future Event Generation (FEG) is a challenging task in event sequence prediction because it requires not only fluent text generation but also commonsense reasoning to maintain the logical coherence of the entire event story.
• In this paper, we propose a novel explainable FEG framework, Coep.
• It highlights and integrates two types of event knowledge, sequential knowledge of direct event-event relations and inferential knowledge that reflects the intermediate character psychology between events, such as intents, causes, reactions, which intrinsically pushes the story forward.