Strategies for structuring story generation

A Fan, M Lewis, Y Dauphin - arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.01109, 2019 - arxiv.org
Writers generally rely on plans or sketches to write long stories, but most current language
models generate word by word from left to right. We explore coarse-to-fine models for …

Building applied natural language generation systems

E Reiter, R Dale - Natural Language Engineering, 1997 - cambridge.org
In this article, we give an overview of Natural Language Generation (NLG) from an applied
system-building perspective. The article includes a discussion of when NLG techniques …

Long and diverse text generation with planning-based hierarchical variational model

Z Shao, M Huang, J Wen, W Xu, X Zhu - arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.06605, 2019 - arxiv.org
Existing neural methods for data-to-text generation are still struggling to produce long and
diverse texts: they are insufficient to model input data dynamically during generation, to …

Generating natural language summaries from multiple on-line sources

DR Radev - 1997 - academiccommons.columbia.edu
One of the major problems with the Internet is the abundance of information and the difficulty
for the average computer user to read everything existing on a specific topic. There exist …

Automated discourse generation using discourse structure relations

EH Hovy - Artificial intelligence, 1993 - Elsevier
This paper summarizes work over the past five years on the automated planning and
generation of multisentence texts using discourse structure relations, placing it in context of …

Stylized data-to-text generation: A case study in the e-commerce domain

L Jing, X Song, X Lin, Z Zhao, W Zhou… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Existing data-to-text generation efforts mainly focus on generating a coherent text from non-
linguistic input data, such as tables and attribute–value pairs, but overlook that different …

Semantic graph reduction approach for abstractive text summarization

IF Moawad, M Aref - 2012 Seventh International Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the important Natural Language Processing applications is Text Summarization,
which helps users to manage the vast amount of information available, by condensing …

Narrative prose generation

CB Callaway, JC Lester - Artificial Intelligence, 2002 - Elsevier
Narrative generation has historically suffered from poor writing quality, stemming from a
narrow focus on story grammars and plot design. Moreover, to-date natural language …

[PDF][PDF] NLG vs. templates

E Reiter - Proceedings of the Fifth European Workshop on …, 1995 - Citeseer
One of the most important questions in applied NLG is what bene ts (orvalueadded', in
business-speak) NLG technology o ers over template-based approaches. Despite the …

Method and apparatus for document planning

S Mahamood - US Patent 10,664,558, 2020 - Google Patents
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described herein that are
configured to be embodied as and/or performed by a document planner. In some examples …