Reading List for Character Grounded Storytelling

A curated list of awesome storytelling papers with a focus on characters in the narrative, including relevant datasets and models for both traditional story generation and visual storytelling.

Datasets

Textual

• Let Your Characters Tell Their Story": A Dataset for Character-Centric Narrative Understanding, Findings of EMNLP 2021 [dataset]

• CLUTRR: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Inductive Reasoning from Text, EMNLP 2019 [dataset]

• A Corpus and Evaluation Framework for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Stories, NAACL 2016 [ROCStories]

Visual

• Visual Storytelling, NAACL 2016 [dataset]

• M-VAD Names: a Dataset for Video Captioning with Naming, [dataset], [video demo]

Character Identification

• Character Identification Refined: A Proposal, Workshop on Narrative Understanding 2019

• Mr. Bennet, his coachman, and the Archbishop walk into a bar but only one of them gets recognized: On The Difficulty of Detecting Characters in Literary Texts, EMNLP 2015

Visual Storytelling

• Plot and Rework: Modeling Storylines for Visual Storytelling, ACL 2021 Findings

• Imagine, Reason and Write: Visual Storytelling with Graph Knowledge and Relational Reasoning, AAAI 2021

• No Metrics Are Perfect: Adversarial Reward Learning for Visual Storytelling, ACL 2018

Grounded Movie Description

• Character Grounding and Re-Identification in Story of Videos and Text Descriptions, ECCV 2020 [code]

• Grounded Video Description, CVPR 2019 [ActivityNet-Entities dataset]

• Generating Descriptions with Grounded and Co-Referenced People, CVPR 2017

Persona Learning

• A Persona-Based Neural Conversation Model, ACL 2016

• Learning Latent Personas of Film Characters, ACL 2013

Story Generation

• Modeling Protagonist Emotions for Emotion-Aware Storytelling, EMNLP 2020

• Neural Text Generation in Stories Using Entity Representations as Context, ACL 2018