Returning to the Start: Generating Narratives with Related Endpoints
Anneliese Brei Chao Zhao Snigdha Chaturvedi
Human writers often bookend their writing with ending sentences that relate
back to the beginning sentences in order to compose a satisfying narrative that
"closes the loop." Motivated by this observation, we propose RENarGen, a
controllable story-generation paradigm that generates narratives by ensuring
the first and last sentences are related and then infilling the middle
sentences. Our contributions include an initial exploration of how various
methods of bookending from Narratology affect language modeling for stories.
Automatic and human evaluations indicate RENarGen produces better stories with
more narrative closure than current autoregressive models.