Persona-Guided Planning for Controlling the Protagonist’s Persona in Story Generation (2022.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to control the protagonist's persona in story generation are implicitly and sparsely embodied in stories, so we propose a planning-based generation model called ConPer to explicitly model the relationship between personas and events. |
| Approach: | They propose a model to control the protagonist's persona in story generation by predicting one target sentence and planning the plot as a sequence of keywords with the guidance of the predicted persona-related events and commonsense knowledge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models for generating more coherent and persona-controllable stories. |
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