Returning to the Start: Generating Narratives with Related Endpoints

arXiv:2404.00829v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Human writers often bookend their writing with ending sentences that relate back to the beginning sentences in order to compose a satisfying narrative that "closes the loop." Motivated by this observation, we propose RENarGen, a controllable story-generation paradigm that generates narratives by ensuring the first and last sentences are related and then infilling the middle sentences. Our contributions include an initial exploration of how various methods of bookending from Narratology affect language modeling for stories. …

abstract arxiv cs.cl endpoints human loop narrative observation paradigm story type writers writing