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A list of deep learning and general AI papers for computational narratologists

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# The Essential Guide for the Computational Narratology Practitioner
A list of deep learning and general AI papers for computational narratologists

These papers are listed in no particular order. If you would like to reorder them, be my guest. :)

Based off of the popular [GNNPapers](https://github.com/thunlp/GNNPapers/blob/master/README.md)
 
## [Content](#content)

<table>
<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#famous-papers">1. Famous Papers</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#models">2. Models</a></td></tr>
<tr>
    <td>&emsp;<a href="#text-adventures">2.1 Text Adventures</a></td>
    <td>&ensp;<a href="#story-generation">2.2 Story Generation</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>&emsp;<a href="#explainability">2.3 Explainability</a></td>
    <td>&ensp;<a href="#narrative-data-mining">2.4 Narrative Data Mining</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>&emsp;<a href="#visual-storytelling">2.5 Visual Storytelling</a></td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#theory">3. Theory</a></td></tr>
<tr>
    <td>&emsp;<a href="#interactive-narratives">3.1 Interactive Narratives</a></td>
    <td>&emsp;<a href="#education">3.2 Education</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>&emsp;<a href="#analysis">3.3 Analysis</a></td>
    <td>&emsp;<a href="#foundationalism">3.4 Foundationalism</a></td>
</tr>
</table>

## [Famous Papers](#content)

This section is by nomination ONLY. Please email me at lcastric@edu.uwaterloo.ca to nominate someone. You CANNOT nominate yourself.

1. **Narrative Intelligence** 
AAAI, 1999. [paper](https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Symposia/Fall/1999/FS-99-01/FS99-01-001.pdf)

*Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers*
   
2. **Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace.**
MIT Press, 2017. [book](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/hamlet-holodeck-updated-edition)

*Janet H. Murray*
   
    
## [Models](#content)

### [Text Adventures](#content)

1. **Playing Text-Adventure Games with Graph-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning**
arxiv, 2018. [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01628)
    
    *Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Mark O. Riedl* 
    
2. **Transfer in Deep Reinforcement Learning using Knowledge Graphs**
arxiv, 2019. [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06556)
    
    *Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Mark O. Riedl* 
    
3. **Graph Constrained Reinforcement Learning for Natural Language Action Spaces**
ICLR, 2019. [paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=B1x6w0EtwH)
    
    *Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Mark O. Riedl* 
    
4. **Language Understanding for Text-based Games Using Deep Reinforcement Learning**
arxiv, 2015. [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08941)
    
    *Karthik Narasimhan, Tejas Kulkarni, Regina Barzilay*
    
5. **Learn How to Cook a New Recipe in a New House: Using Map Familiarization, Curriculum Learning, and Bandit Feedback to Learn Families of Text-Based Adventure Games**
arxiv, 2019. [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04777)
    
    *Xusen Yin, Jonathan May*
        
5. **Comprehensible Context-driven Text Game Playing**
arxiv, 2019. [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02265)
    
    *Xusen Yin, Jonathan May*
    
6. **Learning How Not to Act in Text-based Games**
ICLR, 2018. [paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=B1-tVX1Pz)
    
    *Matan Haroush, Tom Zahavy, Daniel J. Mankowitz, Shie Mannor*
    
7. **The Text-Based Adventure AI Competition**
IEEE, 2019. [paper](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8629315)
    
    *Timothy Atkinson, Hendrik Baier, Tara copplestone, Sam Devlin, Jerry Swan*
    
8. **Learning to Speak and Act in a Fantasy Text Adventure Game**
arxiv 2019. [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03094)

*Jack Urbanek, Angela Fan, Siddharth Karamcheti, Saachi Jain, Samuel Humeau, Emily Dinan, Tim Rocktäschel, Douwe Kiela, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston*
    
### [Story Generation](#content)    
   
1. **Story Realization: Expanding Plot Events into Sentences** 
arxiv, 2019. [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03480)

*Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Ethan Tien, Wesley Cheung, Zhaochen Luo, William Ma, Lara J. Martin, Mark O. Riedl*
    
    
2. **Controllable Neural Story Plot Generation via Reinforcement Learning** 
arxiv, 2019. [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10736)

*Pradyumna Tambwekar, Murtaza Dhuliawala, Lara J. Martin, Animesh Mehta, Brent Harrison, Mark O. Riedl*
    
    
3. **Guided Neural Language Generation for Automated Storytelling** 
ACL, 2019. [paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-3405/)
    
    *Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Ethan Tien, Wesley Cheung, Zhaochen Luo, William Ma, Lara Martin, Mark Riedl*
    
4. **Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets** 
AAAI, 2018. [paper](https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI18/paper/view/17046/15769)

*Lara J. Martin, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Xinyu Wang, William Hancock, Shruti Singh, Brent Harrison, Mark O. Riedl*

5. **Hierarchical Neural Story Generation** 
arxiv, 2018. [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04833)

*Angela Fan, Mike Lewis, Yann Dauphin*
   
6. **Toward Automated Quest Generation in Text-Adventure Games** 
arxiv, 2019. [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06283)

*Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, William Broniec, Alex Mueller, Jeremy Paul, Mark O. Riedl*
   
7. **Toward Automated Story Generation with Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods and Deep Neural Networks** 
INT, 2017. [paper](http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/int17.pdf)

*Brent Harrison, Christopher Purdy, and Mark O. Riedl*
    
8. **dAIrector: Automatic Story Beat Generation through Knowledge Synthesis** 
AAAI, 2018. [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03423)

*Eger M and Mathewson KW*
       
9. **Creative Help: A Story Writing Assistant** 
ICIDS, 2015. [paper](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_8)

*Melissa Roemmele and Andrew S. Gordon*
          
### [Explainability](#content)
  
1. **On Design and Evaluation of Human-centered Explainable AI systems.**
CHI, 2019. [paper](http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/ehsan-chi-hcml19.pdf)
  
   *Upol Ehsan and Mark O. Riedl.*

2. **Automated rationale generation: A technique for explainable AI and its effects on human perceptions**
ACM, 2019. [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03729)

*Upol Ehsan, Pradyumna Tambwekar, Larry Chan, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl.*
  
3. **Explainable PCGML via Game Design Patterns**
AAAI, 2018. [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09419)

*Matthew Guzdial, Joshua Reno, Jonathan Chen, Gillian Smith, Mark Riedl*

### [Narrative Data Mining](#content)

1. **A Semi-automatic Method for Efficient Detection of Stories on Social Media** arxiv, 2016.
[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05134)

*Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy*
   
2. **Understanding speech in interactive narratives with crowdsourced data** ACM, 2012.
[paper](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3014640)

*Jeff Orkin, Deb Roy*
   
### [Visual Storytelling](#content)

1. **Visual Storytelling** arxiv, 2016.
[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.03968)

*Ting-Hao (Kenneth)Huang, Francis Ferraro, Nasrin Mostafazadeh, Ishan Misra, Aishwarya Agrawal, Jacob Devlin, Ross Girshick, Xiaodong He, Pushmeet Kohli, Dhruv Batra, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Devi Parikh, Lucy Vanderwende, Michel Galley, Margaret Mitchell*
   
2. **Knowledge-Enriched Visual Storytelling** arxiv, 2019.
[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01496)

*Chao-Chun Hsu, Zi-Yuan Chen, Chi-Yang Hsu, Chih-Chia Li, Tzu-Yuan Lin, Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang, Lun-Wei Ku*   
   
3. **Visual Story Post-Editing** arxiv, 2019.
[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01764)

*Ting-Yao Hsu, Chieh-Yang Huang, Yen-Chia Hsu, Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang*
   
## [Theory](#content)

### [Interactive Narratives](#content)

1. **Interactive Digital Narrative: History, Theory and Practice** academia.edu, N/A.
[paper](https://www.academia.edu/11659325/Interactive_Digital_Narrative_History_Theory_and_Practice)

*Hartmut Koenitz, Tonguc Sezen, Mads Haahr, and Diğdem Sezen*
   
2. **Narrative in Video Games** academia.edu, 2018.
[paper](https://www.academia.edu/35923728/Narrative_in_Video_Games)

*Hartmut Koenitz*
   
### [Education](#content)
   
1. **Challenges of IDN Research and Teaching** ICIDS, 2019.
[paper](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-33894-7_4)

*Hartmut Koenitz, Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari*
   
### [Analysis](#content)
   
1. **Reading Between the Lines: Using Plot Graphs to Draw Inferences From Stories** ICIDS, 2016.
[paper](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-48279-8_18)

*Christopher Purdy. Mark O. Riedl*
   
2. **Predicting Generated Story Quality with Quantitative Measures** AAAI 2016.
[paper](http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/purdy-aiide18.pdf)

*Christopher Purdy, Xinyu Wang, Larry He, and Mark Riedl*
   
3. **Evaluating Coherence in Dialogue Systems using Entailment** arxiv, 2019.
[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03371)

*Nouha Dziri, Ehsan Kamalloo, Kory W. Mathewson, Osmar Zaiane*
   
4. **Shaping the Narrative Arc: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Collaborative Dialogue** arxiv, 2019.
[paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11528)

*Kory W. Mathewson, Pablo Samuel Castro, Colin Cherry, George Foster, Marc G. Bellemare*
   
5. **Evaluating Story Generation Systems Using Automated Linguistic Analyses** KDD, 2017.
[paper](https://roemmele.github.io/publications/fiction_generation.pdf)

*Melissa Roemmele, Andrew S. Gordon, and Reid Swanson*
   
6. **Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Semiotics of Ontology** Semiotica, 1977.
[paper](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1570242)

*William Benzon*
   
6. **Narrative sculptures: graph theory, topology and new perspectives in narratology** academia.edu, N/A.
[paper](https://www.academia.edu/11744670/Narrative_sculptures_graph_theory_topology_and_new_perspectives_in_narratology)

*Félix Lambert*   
      
### [Foundationalism](#content)
   
1. **Cognitive Networks and Literary Semantics** MLN, 1976.
[paper](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2907111?seq=1)

*William Benzon*
   
2. **Lust in Action: An Abstraction** Language and Style, 1981.
[paper](https://www.academia.edu/7931834/Lust_in_Action_An_Abstraction)

*William Benzon*
  
3. **Abstract Patterns in Stories: From the intellectual legacy of David G. Hays** Independent, 2017.
[paper](https://www.academia.edu/34975666/Abstract_Patterns_in_Stories_From_the_intellectual_legacy_of_David_G._Hays)

*William Benzon*
   
4. **Computational Linguistics and the Humanist** Computers and the Humanities, 1976.
[paper](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02420060)

*William Benzon, David G. Hays*
   
5. **Abstract Patterns in Stories: From the intellectual legacy of David G. Hays** HEXO1, 2017.
[paper](https://www.academia.edu/35117980/A_Brief_Parallel_Chronology_of_Cognitive_Science_and_Literary_Theory)

*William Benzon*
   
6. **A Theoretical Framework to Represent Narrative Structures for Visual Storytelling** Bridges, 2015.
[paper](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309833980_A_Theoretical_Framework_to_Represent_Narrative_Structures_for_Visual_Storytelling)

*Ergun Akleman, Stefano Franchi, Devkan Kaleci, Laura Mandell*
   
7. **A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR INTERACTIVE CARTOGRAPHIC STORYTELLING** N/A, 2018.
[paper](https://library.itc.utwente.nl/papers_2018/msc/gfm/LandaverdeCortes.pdf)

*Noe Abraham Landaverde Cortes*

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