@inproceedings{ermolaeva-etal-2024-tame,
    title = "How to tame your plotline: A framework for goal-driven interactive fairy tale generation",
    author = "Ermolaeva, Marina  and
      Shakhmatova, Anastasia  and
      Nepomnyashchikh, Alina  and
      Fenogenova, Alena",
    editor = "Lal, Yash Kumar  and
      Clark, Elizabeth  and
      Iyyer, Mohit  and
      Chaturvedi, Snigdha  and
      Brei, Anneliese  and
      Brahman, Faeze  and
      Chandu, Khyathi Raghavi",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2024.wnu-1.2/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.wnu-1.2",
    pages = "8--31",
    abstract = "Automatic storytelling is a difficult NLP task that poses a challenge even for state-of-the-art large language models. This paper proposes a pipeline for interactive fairy tale generation in a mixed-initiative setting. Our approach introduces a story goal as a stopping condition, imposes minimal structure on the narrative in the form of a simple emotional arc, and controls the transition between the stages of the story via system prompt engineering. The resulting framework reconciles creating a structured and complete short-form narrative with retaining player agency and allowing users to influence the storyline through their input. We evaluate our approach with several proprietary and open-source language models and examine its transferability to different languages, specifically English and Russian."
}