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 …

People share stories online for a myriad of purposes, whether as a means of self-disclosure,
processing difficult personal experiences, providing needed information or entertainment, or …

Recent advances in large-scale language models (Raffel et al., 2019; Brown et al., 2020)
have brought significant qualitative and quantitative improvements in machine-driven text …

Story ideation is a critical part of the story-writing process. It is challenging to support
computationally due to its exploratory and subjective nature. Tropes, which are recurring …

Neural language model-based approaches to automated story generation suffer from two
important limitations. First, language model-based story generators generally do not work …

This thesis explores different ways of improving theatre play script gen-eration. To generate
a theatre play script, we fine-tune the GPT-2 medium language model on a mixture of theatre …