no code implementations • 13 Dec 2024 • Runsheng "Anson" Huang, Lara J. Martin, Chris Callison-Burch
WHAT-IF -- Writing a Hero's Alternate Timeline through Interactive Fiction -- is a system that uses zero-shot meta-prompting to create branching narratives from a prewritten story.
no code implementations • 26 Apr 2024 • Lara J. Martin, Malathy Nagalakshmi
Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques are being used more frequently to improve high-tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), but many of these techniques are integrated without the inclusion of the users' perspectives.
no code implementations • 15 Aug 2023 • Andrew Zhu, Lara J. Martin, Andrew Head, Chris Callison-Burch
The role of a Dungeon Master, or DM, in the game Dungeons & Dragons is to perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
1 code implementation • 2 May 2023 • Andrew Zhu, Karmanya Aggarwal, Alexander Feng, Lara J. Martin, Chris Callison-Burch
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is a tabletop roleplaying game with complex natural language interactions between players and hidden state information.
no code implementations • 25 Feb 2023 • Tianyi Zhang, Isaac Tham, Zhaoyi Hou, Jiaxuan Ren, Liyang Zhou, Hainiu Xu, Li Zhang, Lara J. Martin, Rotem Dror, Sha Li, Heng Ji, Martha Palmer, Susan Brown, Reece Suchocki, Chris Callison-Burch
Schema induction builds a graph representation explaining how events unfold in a scenario.
no code implementations • 19 Jan 2023 • Salvatore Giorgi, Ke Zhao, Alexander H. Feng, Lara J. Martin
In the r/AmITheAsshole subreddit, people anonymously share first person narratives that contain some moral dilemma or conflict and ask the community to judge who is at fault (i. e., who is "the asshole").
1 code implementation • 21 Dec 2022 • Yijiang River Dong, Lara J. Martin, Chris Callison-Burch
In this work, we capitalize on state-of-the-art Code-LLMs, such as Codex, to bootstrap the use of symbolic methods for tracking the state of stories and aiding in story understanding.
no code implementations • 13 Oct 2022 • Chris Callison-Burch, Gaurav Singh Tomar, Lara J. Martin, Daphne Ippolito, Suma Bailis, David Reitter
In this paper, we frame D&D specifically as a dialogue system challenge, where the tasks are to both generate the next conversational turn in the game and predict the state of the game given the dialogue history.
2 code implementations • 16 Feb 2022 • Bryan Li, Lara J. Martin, Chris Callison-Burch
Transformers have been showing near-human performance on a variety of tasks, but they are not without their limitations.
no code implementations • 16 Dec 2021 • Amal Alabdulkarim, Winston Li, Lara J. Martin, Mark O. Riedl
The advent of large pre-trained generative language models has provided a common framework for AI story generation via sampling the model to create sequences that continue the story.
1 code implementation • 8 Sep 2019 • Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Ethan Tien, Wesley Cheung, Zhaochen Luo, William Ma, Lara J. Martin, Mark O. Riedl
Neural network based approaches to automated story plot generation attempt to learn how to generate novel plots from a corpus of natural language plot summaries.
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1 code implementation • 27 Sep 2018 • Pradyumna Tambwekar, Murtaza Dhuliawala, Lara J. Martin, Animesh Mehta, Brent Harrison, Mark O. Riedl
Language-modeling--based approaches to story plot generation attempt to construct a plot by sampling from a language model (LM) to predict the next character, word, or sentence to add to the story.
1 code implementation • 5 Jun 2017 • Lara J. Martin, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Xinyu Wang, William Hancock, Shruti Singh, Brent Harrison, Mark O. Riedl
We then present a technique for automated story generation whereby we decompose the problem into the generation of successive events (event2event) and the generation of natural language sentences from events (event2sentence).