@inproceedings{wang-etal-2020-plan,
    title = "Plan-{CVAE}: A Planning-based Conditional Variational Autoencoder for Story Generation",
    author = "Wang, Lin  and
      Li, Juntao  and
      Yan, Rui  and
      Zhao, Dongyan",
    editor = "Sun, Maosong  and
      Li, Sujian  and
      Zhang, Yue  and
      Liu, Yang",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = oct,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Haikou, China",
    publisher = "Chinese Information Processing Society of China",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Ingest-2025-COMPUTEL/2020.ccl-1.83/",
    pages = "892--902",
    language = "eng",
    abstract = "Story generation is a challenging task of automatically creating natural languages to describe a sequence of events, which requires outputting text with not only a consistent topic but also novel wordings. Although many approaches have been proposed and obvious progress has been made on this task, there is still a large room for improvement, especially for improving thematic consistency and wording diversity. To mitigate the gap between generated stories and those written by human writers, in this paper, we propose a planning-based conditional variational autoencoder, namely Plan-CVAE, which first plans a keyword sequence and then generates a story based on the keyword sequence. In our method, the keywords planning strategy is used to improve thematic consistency while the CVAE module allows enhancing wording diversity. Experimental results on a benchmark dataset confirm that our proposed method can generate stories with both thematic consistency and wording novelty, and outperforms state-of-the-art methods on both automatic metrics and human evaluations."
}