Neural Story Planning

Understand

Automated plot generation is the challenge of generating a sequence of events that will be perceived by readers as the plot of a coherent story.

• Traditional symbolic planners plan a story from a goal state and guarantee logical causal plot coherence but rely on a library of hand-crafted actions with their preconditions and effects.
• This closed world setting limits the length and diversity of what symbolic planners can generate.
• On the other hand, pre-trained neural language models can generate stories with great diversity, while being generally incapable of ending a story in a specified manner and can have trouble maintaining coherence.