NarrativePlay: Interactive Narrative Understanding
Runcong Zhao Wenjia Zhang Jiazheng Li Lixing Zhu Yanran Li Yulan He Lin Gui
In this paper, we introduce NarrativePlay, a novel system that allows users
to role-play a fictional character and interact with other characters in
narratives such as novels in an immersive environment. We leverage Large
Language Models (LLMs) to generate human-like responses, guided by personality
traits extracted from narratives. The system incorporates auto-generated visual
display of narrative settings, character portraits, and character speech,
greatly enhancing user experience. Our approach eschews predefined sandboxes,
focusing instead on main storyline events extracted from narratives from the
perspective of a user-selected character. NarrativePlay has been evaluated on
two types of narratives, detective and adventure stories, where users can
either explore the world or improve their favorability with the narrative
characters through conversations.