TY - JOUR AU - Lin, Zhiyu AU - Riedl, Mark O. PY - 2021/10/04 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Plug-and-Blend: A Framework for Plug-and-Play Controllable Story Generation with Sketches JF - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment JA - AIIDE VL - 17 IS - 1 SE - Full Oral Papers DO - 10.1609/aiide.v17i1.18891 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIIDE/article/view/18891 SP - 58-65 AB - 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. ER -