Storytelling and narrative are fundamental to human experience, intertwined with our social
and cultural engagement. As such, researchers have long attempted to create systems that …

Affective computing stands at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI), seeking to imbue
machines with the ability to comprehend and respond to human emotions. Central to this …

In our era of rapid technological advancement, the research landscape for writing assistants
has become increasingly fragmented across various research communities. We seek to …

Previous work in phonologically and phonetically grounded language generation has
mainly focused on domains such as puns and poetry. In this article, we present new work on …

Since the first instances of online education, where courses were uploaded to accessible
and shared online platforms, this form of scaling the dissemination of human knowledge to …

Enabling engagement of manga by visually impaired individuals presents a significant
challenge due to its inherently visual nature. With the goal of fostering accessibility, this …

With the development of artificial intelligence, particularly the success of Large Language
Models (LLMs), the quantity and quality of automatically generated stories have significantly …

Local coherence is essential for long-form text generation models. We identify two important
aspects of local coherence within the visual storytelling task:(1) the model needs to …

Psychological research suggests the central role of event causality in human story
understanding. Further, event causality has been heavily utilized in symbolic story …

Current captioning datasets focus on object-centric captions, describing the visible objects in
the image, eg" people eating food in a park". Although these datasets are useful to evaluate …