@inproceedings{li-etal-2025-storyteller,
    title = "{STORYTELLER}: An Enhanced Plot-Planning Framework for Coherent and Cohesive Story Generation",
    author = "Li, Jiaming  and
      Chen, Yukun  and
      Liu, Ziqiang  and
      Tan, Minghuan  and
      Zhang, Lei  and
      Li, Yunshui  and
      Luo, Run  and
      Chen, Longze  and
      Luo, Jing  and
      Argha, Ahmadreza  and
      Alinejad-Rokny, Hamid  and
      Zhou, Wei  and
      Yang, Min",
    editor = "Che, Wanxiang  and
      Nabende, Joyce  and
      Shutova, Ekaterina  and
      Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-acl-25/2025.findings-acl.1071/",
    pages = "20818--20846",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-256-5",
    abstract = "Stories are central to human culture, serving to share ideas, preserve traditions, and foster connections. Automatic story generation, a key advancement in artificial intelligence (AI), offers new possibilities for creating personalized content, exploring creative ideas, and enhancing interactive experiences. However, existing methods struggle to maintain narrative coherence and logical consistency. This disconnect compromises the overall storytelling experience, underscoring the need for substantial improvements. Inspired by human cognitive processes, we introduce Storyteller, a novel approach that systemically improves the coherence and consistency of automatically generated stories. Storyteller introduces a plot node structure based on linguistically grounded subject-verb-object (SVO) triplets, which capture essential story events and ensure a consistent logical flow. Unlike previous methods, Storyteller integrates two dynamic modules{---}the STORYLINE and narrative entity knowledge graph (NEKG){---}that continuously interact with the story generation process. This integration produces structurally sound, cohesive and immersive narratives. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Storyteller significantly outperforms existing approaches, achieving an 84.33{\%} average win rate through human preference evaluation. At the same time, it is also far ahead in other aspects including creativity, coherence, engagement, and relevance."
}