What is Wrong with Language Models that Can Not Tell a Story?

Ivan P. Yamshchikov, Alexey Tikhonov


Abstract
In this position paper, we contend that advancing our understanding of narrative and the effective generation of longer, subjectively engaging texts is crucial for progress in modern Natural Language Processing (NLP) and potentially the broader field of Artificial Intelligence. We highlight the current lack of appropriate datasets, evaluation methods, and operational concepts necessary for initiating work on narrative processing.
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2023.wnu-1.8
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Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Narrative Understanding
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Nader Akoury, Elizabeth Clark, Mohit Iyyer, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Faeze Brahman, Khyathi Chandu
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WNU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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58–64
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.wnu-1.8
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.wnu-1.8
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Ivan P. Yamshchikov and Alexey Tikhonov. 2023. What is Wrong with Language Models that Can Not Tell a Story?. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Narrative Understanding, pages 58–64, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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What is Wrong with Language Models that Can Not Tell a Story? (Yamshchikov & Tikhonov, WNU 2023)
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