DOC: Improving Long Story Coherence With Detailed Outline Control (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Detailed Outline Control (DOC) framework improves long-range plot coherence . human evaluations of DOC show it outperforms strong Re3 on plot cohesion, outline relevance and interestingness . |
| Approach: | They propose a Detailed Outline Control framework to improve long-range plot coherence . the detailed outliner creates a more detailed, hierarchically structured outline . they propose doc with a detailed controller to ensure the more detailed outline is respected . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms Re3 on plot coherence, outline relevance and interestingness. |
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