Plug-and-Blend: A Framework for Controllable Story Generation with Blended Control Codes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04039v2
• Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:33:47 GMT
• Title: Plug-and-Blend: A Framework for Controllable Story Generation with Blended Control Codes
• Authors: Zhiyu Lin, Mark Riedl
• Abstract summary: We describe a controllable language generation framework, Plug-and-Blend, that allows a human user to input multiple control codes (topics) In the context of automated story generation, this allows a human user loose or fine-grained control of the topics and transitions between them. A human participant evaluation shows that the generated stories are observably transitioning between two topics.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Large pre-trained neural language models (LM) have very powerful text generation capabilities. However, in practice, they are hard to control for creative purposes. We describe a Plug-and-Play controllable language generation framework, Plug-and-Blend, that allows a human user to input multiple control codes (topics). In the context of automated story generation, this allows a human user loose or fine-grained control of the topics and transitions between them that will appear in the generated story, and can even allow for overlapping, blended topics. Automated evaluations show our framework, working with different generative LMs, controls the generation towards given continuous-weighted control codes while keeping the generated sentences fluent, demonstrating strong blending capability. A human participant evaluation shows that the generated stories are observably transitioning between two topics.

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