NarrativePlay: Interactive Narrative Understanding

Runcong Zhao, Wenjia Zhang, Jiazheng Li, Lixing Zhu, Yanran Li, Yulan He, Lin Gui

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Abstract

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 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 the user experience. Our approach eschews predefined sandboxes, focusing instead on main storyline events 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 increase affinity with other characters through conversations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of System Demonstrations
EditorsNikolaos Aletras, Orphee De Clercq
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages82-93
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9798891760912
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2024 - St. Julian's, Malta
Duration: 17 Mar 202422 Mar 2024

Publication series

NameEACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of System Demonstrations

Conference

Conference18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2024
Country/TerritoryMalta
CitySt. Julian's
Period17/03/202422/03/2024

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