Towards Better Storylines with Sentence-Level Language Models

David Grangier
Chris Callison-Burch
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2020), pp. 1808-1822
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Abstract

This work proposes a sentence-level language model which predicts
the next sentence in a story given the embeddings of the previous
sentences. The model operates at the sentence-level and selects the
next sentence within a fine set of fluent alternatives. By working
with sentence embeddings instead of word embeddings, our model is
able to efficiently consider a large number of alternative sentences.
By considering only fluent sentences, our model is relieved from modeling
fluency and can focus on longer range dependencies. Our method achieves
state-of-the-art accuracy on the StoryCloze task in the unsupervised setting.