Yukun Chen


2025

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STORYTELLER: An Enhanced Plot-Planning Framework for Coherent and Cohesive Story Generation
Jiaming Li | Yukun Chen | Ziqiang Liu | Minghuan Tan | Lei Zhang | Yunshui Li | Run Luo | Longze Chen | Jing Luo | Ahmadreza Argha | Hamid Alinejad-Rokny | Wei Zhou | Min Yang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025

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.

2014

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UTH_CCB: A report for SemEval 2014 – Task 7 Analysis of Clinical Text
Yaoyun Zhang | Jingqi Wang | Buzhou Tang | Yonghui Wu | Min Jiang | Yukun Chen | Hua Xu
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014)