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ScriptWriter: Narrative-Guided Script Generation

Yutao Zhu, Ruihua Song, Zhicheng Dou, Jian-Yun Nie, Jin Zhou


Abstract
It is appealing to have a system that generates a story or scripts automatically from a storyline, even though this is still out of our reach. In dialogue systems, it would also be useful to drive dialogues by a dialogue plan. In this paper, we address a key problem involved in these applications - guiding a dialogue by a narrative. The proposed model ScriptWriter selects the best response among the candidates that fit the context as well as the given narrative. It keeps track of what in the narrative has been said and what is to be said. A narrative plays a different role than the context (i.e., previous utterances), which is generally used in current dialogue systems. Due to the unavailability of data for this new application, we construct a new large-scale data collection GraphMovie from a movie website where end- users can upload their narratives freely when watching a movie. Experimental results on the dataset show that our proposed approach based on narratives significantly outperforms the baselines that simply use the narrative as a kind of context.
Anthology ID:
2020.acl-main.765
Volume:
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
Venue:
ACL
SIG:
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
8647–8657
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.765
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.765
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Yutao Zhu, Ruihua Song, Zhicheng Dou, Jian-Yun Nie, and Jin Zhou. 2020. ScriptWriter: Narrative-Guided Script Generation. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 8647–8657, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
ScriptWriter: Narrative-Guided Script Generation (Zhu et al., ACL 2020)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.765.pdf
Video:
 http://slideslive.com/38928837
Code
 DaoD/ScriptWriter