Abstract
Emotions are essential for storytelling and narrative generation, and as such, the relationship between stories and emotions has been extensively studied. The authors of this paper, including a professional novelist, have examined the use of natural language processing to address the problems of novelists from the perspective of practical creative writing. In particular, the story completion task, which requires understanding the existing unfinished context, was studied from the perspective of creative support for human writers, to generate appropriate content to complete the unfinished parts. It was found that unsupervised pre-trained large neural models of the sequence-to-sequence type are useful for this task. Furthermore, based on the plug-and-play module for controllable text generation using GPT-2, an additional module was implemented to consider emotions. Although this is a preliminary study, and the results leave room for improvement before incorporating the model into a practical system, this effort is an important step in complementing the emotional trajectory of the story.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.in2writing-1.6
- Original:
- 2022.in2writing-1.6v1
- Version 2:
- 2022.in2writing-1.6v2
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the First Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing 2022)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Dublin, Ireland
- Editors:
- Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang, Vipul Raheja, Dongyeop Kang, John Joon Young Chung, Daniel Gissin, Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero
- Venue:
- In2Writing
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 46–57
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.in2writing-1.6
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.in2writing-1.6
- Cite (ACL):
- Yusuke Mori, Hiroaki Yamane, Ryohei Shimizu, and Tatsuya Harada. 2022. Plug-and-Play Controller for Story Completion: A Pilot Study toward Emotion-aware Story Writing Assistance. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing 2022), pages 46–57, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Plug-and-Play Controller for Story Completion: A Pilot Study toward Emotion-aware Story Writing Assistance (Mori et al., In2Writing 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2022.in2writing-1.6.pdf
- Data
- ROCStories