NarrativePlay: Interactive Narrative Understanding
Runcong Zhao, Wenjia Zhang, Jiazheng Li, Lixing Zhu, Yanran Li, Yulan He, Lin Gui
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce NarrativePlay, a novel system that allows users to role-play a fictional character and interact with other characters in narratives in an immersive environment. We leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate human-like responses, guided by personality traits extracted from narratives. The system incorporates auto-generated visual display of narrative settings, character portraits, and character speech, greatly enhancing the user experience. Our approach eschews predefined sandboxes, focusing instead on main storyline events from the perspective of a user-selected character. NarrativePlay has been evaluated on two types of narratives, detective and adventure stories, where users can either explore the world or increase affinity with other characters through conversations.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.eacl-demo.10
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
- Month:
- March
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- St. Julians, Malta
- Editors:
- Nikolaos Aletras, Orphee De Clercq
- Venue:
- EACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 82–93
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-demo.10
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Runcong Zhao, Wenjia Zhang, Jiazheng Li, Lixing Zhu, Yanran Li, Yulan He, and Lin Gui. 2024. NarrativePlay: Interactive Narrative Understanding. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 82–93, St. Julians, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- NarrativePlay: Interactive Narrative Understanding (Zhao et al., EACL 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-1/2024.eacl-demo.10.pdf