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Automated Assistance for Creative Writing with an RNN Language Model

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Melissa Roemmele,

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IUI '18 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

Article No.: 21, Pages 1 - 2

https://doi.org/10.1145/3180308.3180329

Published: 05 March 2018 Publication History

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This work demonstrates an interface, Creative Help, that assists people with creative writing by automatically suggesting new sentences in a story. Authors can freely edit the generated suggestions, and the application tracks their modifications. We make use of a Recurrent Neural Network language model to generate suggestions in a simple probabilistic way. Motivated by the theorized role of unpredictability in creativity, we vary the degree of randomness in the probability distribution used to generate the sentences, and find that authors' interactions with the suggestions are influenced by this randomness.

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Melissa Roemmele and Andrew S Gordon. 2015. Creative Help: A Story Writing Assistant. In ICIDS 2015. Springer International Publishing.

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Melissa Roemmele, Andrew S Gordon, and Reid Swanson. 2017. Evaluating Story Generation Systems Using Automated Linguistic Analyses. In SIGKDD 2017 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity.

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Automated Assistance for Creative Writing with an RNN Language Model
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Natural language processing
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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IUI '18 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

March 2018

141 pages

ISBN:9781450355711

DOI:10.1145/3180308

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