Lara's Storytelling Resources

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Here is a non-exhaustive list of various resources you might want if you're interested in automated story generation, interactive fiction (IF), or related research areas (such as story understanding and tabletop roleplaying games—TRPGs).

I also made a list of related researchers, and I try to keep up a list of upcoming conference and workshop deadlines. If you want me to add or update anything on any of these lists, please let me know! You can unscramble my email address here:

Note: This is not a list of papers in the field, but rather a list of corpora & code and their corresponding papers if they have it.
If you're looking for paper lists, you might be interested in @arnicas's list of text generation papers found on arXiv, Stephen Ware's Narrative Intelligence Lab reading list, or the Tsinghua Natural Language Processing Group's text generation list.
You might also be interested in Peter Jansen, Marc-Alexandre Côté, and Prithviraj Ammanabrolu's Interactive Virtual Environments list.

Story Datasets

Dataset
 Year
 Papers
 Paper Code (Baselines)
 Hugging Face Link
StoryPerceptions – crowd annotations of narratives in social media posts 2024 The Empirical Variability of Narrative Perceptions of Social Media Texts
Quest-GPT-2 – quests and descriptions from 6 RPGs 2024 Generating Role-Playing Game Quests With GPT Language Models
StorySeeker – finding stories in online communities 2024 Where Do People Tell Stories Online? Story Detection Across Online Communities
MirrorStories 2024 MirrorStories: Reflecting Diversity through Personalized Narrative Generation with Large Language Models
EmoBench – English and Chinese stories and LLM's judgments of emotional intelligence 2024 EmoBench: Evaluating the Emotional Intelligence of Large Language Models https://github.com/Sahandfer/EmoBench
STORYSUMM – faithful abstractive summarization of stories 2024 STORYSUMM: Evaluating Faithfulness in Story Summarization https://github.com/melaniesubbiah/storysumm
Choice-75 – branching scripts 2024 Choice-75: A Dataset on Decision Branching in Script Learning https://github.com/JoeyHou/branching
HEART-felt Narratives (Human Empathy and Narrative Taxonomy) – narrative styles that lead to empathy 2024 HEART-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs
DnD Spells – structured information for Dungeons and Dragons spells 2024 Leveraging Large Language Models for Spell-Generation in Dungeons & Dragons https://github.com/m-elio/spell_generation
STORiCo TTS – story TTS in Hindi 2024 STORiCo: Storytelling TTS for Hindi with Character Voice Modulation https://huggingface.co/datasets/Pavankalyan/Hindi_story_telling
SAGA (Story Alternatives and Goal Applicability) – annotated goals in stories from the perspective of the participant 2024 SAGA: A Participant-specific Examination of Story Alternatives and Goal Applicability for a Deeper Understanding of Complex Events
StoryNory TTS – expressive text-to-speech for storytelling 2023 Narrator or Character: Voice Modulation in an Expressive Multi-speaker TTS https://github.com/tpavankalyan/Storynory https://huggingface.co/datasets/Pavankalyan/StoryNoryTTS
CONCOCT (CONCrete Outline ConTrol) – long-form story generation 2023 Improving Pacing in Long-Form Story Planning https://huggingface.co/datasets/ZachW/GPT-BookSum
PASTA – participant states in stories 2023 PASTA: A Dataset for Modeling PArticipant STAtes in Narratives https://github.com/StonyBrookNLP/pasta
NarrativeXL – long stories 2023 NarrativeXL: a Large-scale Dataset for Long-Term Memory Models https://github.com/r-seny/NarrativeXL
r\AmITheAsshole stories 2023 Author as Character and Narrator: Deconstructing Personal Narratives from the r/AmITheAsshole Reddit Community
FIREBALL – Avrae Discord bot commands + natural language 2023 FIREBALL: A Dataset of Dungeons and Dragons Actual-Play with Structured Game State Information https://huggingface.co/datasets/lara-martin/FIREBALL
NEAT (Narrative Elements AnnoTation) – text annotated with narrative elements 2022 Detecting Narrative Elements in Informational Text
POQue (Participant Outcome Questions) – participant outcomes from events in stories 2022 POQue: Asking Participant-specific Outcome Questions for a Deeper Understanding of Complex Events
NarraSum – data for narrative summarization 2022 NarraSum: an Abstractive Narrative Summarization Dataset
FairytaleQA 2022 Fantastic Questions and Where to Find Them: FairytaleQA – An Authentic Dataset for Narrative Comprehension https://huggingface.co/datasets/WorkInTheDark/FairytaleQA
SYMON (SYnopses of MOvie Narratives) – movie synopses from video summaries 2022 Synopses of Movie Narratives: a Video-Language Dataset for Story Understanding
TVShowGuess 2022 TVShowGuess: Character Comprehension in Stories as Speaker Guessing https://github.com/YisiSang/TVSHOWGUESS
TV Tropes – movie scripts annotated with tropes from TVTropes 2022 Computational Support for Trope Analysis of Textual Narratives https://github.com/mandarsc/TropeAnalysis
Possible Stories – questions about stories 2022 Possible Stories: Evaluating Situated Commonsense Reasoning under Multiple Possible Scenarios https://github.com/nii-cl/possible-stories
CoAuthor – collaborative writing dataset 2022 CoAuthor: Designing a Human-AI Collaborative Writing Dataset for Exploring Language Model Capabilities
SummScreen 2022 SummScreen: A Dataset for Abstractive Screenplay Summarization https://github.com/mingdachen/SummScreen
LiSCU (Literature Summary and Character Understanding) – character descriptions, summaries, and names 2021 “Let Your Characters Tell Their Story”: A Dataset for Character-Centric Narrative Understanding https://github.com/fabrahman/char-centric-story
InSentive – authored stories from BookCorpus 2021 Inspiration through Observation: Demonstrating the Influence of Automatically Generated Text on Creative Writing https://github.com/roemmele/InSentive
ESTER (Event Semantic Relation Reasoning) – tagged events from news articles from the TempEval3(TE3) workshop 2021 ESTER: A Machine Reading Comprehension Dataset for Event Semantic Relation Reasoning https://github.com/PlusLabNLP/ESTER
TellMeWhy – Q&A for stories 2021 TellMeWhy: A Dataset for Answering Why-Questions in Narratives https://huggingface.co/datasets/StonyBrookNLP/tellmewhy
TVRecap – TV shows from Fandom and TVMegaSite (soap operas) 2021 TVRecap: A Dataset for Generating Stories with Character Descriptions
Scifi TV Plots – science fiction episode summaries from Fandom 2020 Story Realization: Expanding Plot Events into Sentences https://github.com/rajammanabrolu/StoryRealization https://huggingface.co/datasets/lara-martin/Scifi_TV_Shows
STORIUM – storium.com (gamified storytelling) 2020 STORIUM: A Dataset and Evaluation Platform for Machine-in-the-Loop Story Generation https://github.com/dojoteef/storium-gpt2
ScriptWriter – from GraphMovie, which no longer exists (descriptions of movie plots) 2020 ScriptWriter: Narrative-Guided Script Generation https://github.com/DaoD/ScriptWriter
PerSenT – author sentiment prediction (news articles) 2020 Author's Sentiment Prediction https://huggingface.co/datasets/community-datasets/per_sent
WikiHow Goal-Step 2020 WikiHow: A Large Scale Text Summarization Dataset https://github.com/zharry29/wikihow-goal-step
Lit Bank – annotated Project Gutenberg 2019 An Annotated Dataset of Literary Entities and Literary Event Detection https://huggingface.co/datasets/coref-data/litbank_raw
TimeTravel – stories and counterfactual continuations 2019 Counterfactual Story Reasoning and Generation https://github.com/qkaren/Counterfactual-StoryRW https://huggingface.co/datasets/wza/TimeTravel
HPAC (Harry Potter's Action prediction Corpus) 2019 Harry Potter and the Action Prediction Challenge from Natural Language https://github.com/aghie/hpac
SQuAD 2.0 (Stanford Question Answering Dataset) – reading comprehension 2018 SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text and Know What You Don't Know: Unanswerable Questions for SQuAD https://huggingface.co/datasets/rajpurkar/squad_v2
WritingPrompts – r/WritingPrompts 2018 Hierarchical Neural Story Generation https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/tree/main/examples/stories https://huggingface.co/datasets/rewardsignal/reddit_writing_prompts
Naive Psychology of Characters in Simple Commonsense Stories – "cause and effect of mental state changes of characters in a story" 2018 Modeling Naive Psychology of Characters in Simple Commonsense Stories
NarrativeQA – movie scripts from various sources and Project Gutenberg books 2018 The NarrativeQA Reading Comprehension Challenge https://github.com/google-deepmind/narrativeqa https://huggingface.co/datasets/deepmind/narrativeqa
Deep Dungeons and Dragons (DDD) Corpus – roleplayerguild.com 2018 Deep Dungeons and Dragons: Learning Character-Action Interactions from Role-Playing Game Transcripts
EmotionLines – dialog from the Friends TV show & EmotionPush private chat logs 2018 EmotionLines: An Emotion Corpus of Multi-Party Conversations
RACE (ReAding Comprehension dataset from Examinations) 2017 RACE: Large-scale ReAding Comprehension Dataset From Examinations https://github.com/qizhex/RACE_AR_baselines https://huggingface.co/datasets/ehovy/race
CNN/Daily Mail 2016 Abstractive Text Summarization using Sequence-to-sequence RNNs and Beyond https://huggingface.co/datasets/abisee/cnn_dailymail
FanFiction Archive – fanfiction.net 2016 Beyond Canonical Texts: A Computational Analysis of Fanfiction
ROCStories (ROChester stories) – 5-sentence crowdsourced stories for Story Cloze Test 2016 A Corpus and Cloze Evaluation for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Stories and LSDSem 2017 Shared Task: The Story Cloze Test
CaTeRS (Causal and Temporal Relation Scheme) – Causal and temporal relations using ROC Stories 2016 CaTeRS: Causal and Temporal Relation Scheme for Semantic Annotation of Event Structures
Character Relations 2015 Annotating Character Relations in Literary Texts
bAbI & The Children’s Book Test (CBT) – kids' books from Project Gutenberg 2015 The Goldilocks Principle: Reading Children’s Books with Explicit Memory Representations and Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks https://github.com/facebookarchive/bAbI-tasks https://huggingface.co/datasets/facebook/babi_qa
MCTest – 150-300 word stories written by crowdworkers 2013 MCTest: A Challenge Dataset for the Open-Domain Machine Comprehension of Text https://huggingface.co/datasets/sagnikrayc/mctest
CMU Movie Summary Corpus – Wikipedia movie summaries 2013 Learning Latent Personas of Film Characters
Cornell Movie Dialog – movie scripts and metadata 2011 Chameleons in Imagined Conversations: A New Approach to Understanding Coordination of Linguistic Style in Dialogs https://convokit.cornell.edu/documentation/movie.html https://huggingface.co/datasets/cornell_movie_dialog
Various corpora from UCSC's Natural Language and Dialogue Systems (NLDS) lab

Mixed Visual & Textual Datasets and Methods

Dataset
 Year
 Papers
 Paper Code
 Hugging Face Link
VP-CSV (Visual Planning-based Character-centric Story Visualization) 2022 Character-centric Story Visualization via Visual Planning and Token Alignment https://github.com/PlusLabNLP/VP-CSV
VLC Story GAN 2021 Integrating Visuospatial, Linguistic, and Commonsense Structure into Story Visualization https://github.com/adymaharana/VLCStoryGan
DramaQA – Video Story Understanding on Korean TV Show "Another Miss Oh" 2021 DramaQA: Character-Centered Video Story Understanding with Hierarchical QA https://github.com/liveseongho/DramaQA
KG-Story 2020 Knowledge-Enriched Visual Storytelling
CP-CSV (Character-Preserving Coherent Story Visualization) – character-based story visualization 2020 Character-Preserving Coherent Story Visualization
StoryGAN – story visualization 2019 StoryGAN: A Sequential Conditional GAN for Story Visualization
COIN (COmprehensive INstructional video analysis) 2019 COIN: A Large-scale Dataset for Comprehensive Instructional Video Analysis https://github.com/coin-dataset
Pororo-SV – StoryGAN CLEVR dataset 2019 StoryGAN: A Sequential Conditional GAN for Story Visualization https://huggingface.co/datasets/dhruvrnaik/pororo_storyviz
WikiHow Summarization 2018 WikiHow: A Large Scale Text Summarization Dataset https://github.com/mahnazkoupaee/WikiHow-Dataset https://huggingface.co/datasets/wikihow
MovieGraphs – knowledge graphs, images, and descriptions 2018 MovieGraphs: Towards Understanding Human-Centric Situations from Videos
VIST – Visual storytelling data + task 2016 Visual Storytelling
MovieQA 2016 MovieQA: Understanding Stories in Movies through Question-answering https://github.com/makarandtapaswi/MovieQA_CVPR2016/
BookCorpus 2015 Aligning Books and Movies: Towards Story-Like Visual Explanations by Watching Movies and Reading Books and Skip-thought vectors https://github.com/ryankiros/skip-thoughts https://huggingface.co/datasets/bookcorpus

Story Evaluation, Understanding, & Cloze Tests

Test
 Year
 Papers
MiniCheck – looks up facts across datasets 2024 MiniCheck: Efficient Fact-Checking of LLMs on Grounding Documents
FABLES (Faithfulness Annotations for Book-LEngth Summarization) 2024 FABLES: Evaluating faithfulness and content selection in book-length summarization
HelloBench – long text generation benchmark 2024 HelloBench: Evaluating Long Text Generation Capabilities of Large Language Models
Reflections & Resonance – multiple agents for automatic story annotation 2024 Reflections & Resonance: Two-Agent Partnership for Advancing LLM-based Story Annotation
Do Language Models Enjoy Their Own Stories? – meta analysis of using LLMs for story evaluation 2024 Do Language Models Enjoy Their Own Stories? Prompting Large Language Models for Automatic Story Evaluation
AlignScore – factual consistency 2023 AlignScore: Evaluating Factual Consistency with A Unified Alignment Function
Authorial Leverage – (quality x variations x control) / authorial effort 2023 Towards an Authorial Leverage Evaluation Framework for Expressive Benefits of Deep Generative Models in Story Writing
DeltaScore – fine-grained story evaluation 2023 DeltaScore: Fine-Grained Story Evaluation with Perturbations
CoRRPUS (Code Representations to Reason & Prompt over for Understanding in Stories) – story understanding with code-based prompting 2023 CoRRPUS: Code-based Structured Prompting for Neurosymbolic Story Understanding
UniEval 2022 Towards a Unified Multi-Dimensional Evaluator for Text Generation
StoryER – breaking story evaluation into 3 steps: ranking, rating, reasoning 2022 StoryER: Automatic Story Evaluation via Ranking, Rating and Reasoning
Figurine – Cloze test for idioms and similies 2022 It's not Rocket Science: Interpreting Figurative Language in Narratives
CIS^2 (Contextual Commonsense Inference In Sentence Selection) – commonsense reasoning in stories as a classification task 2022 CIS^2: A Simplified Commonsense Inference Evaluation for Story Prose
Plot-guided Coherence Evaluation 2021 Plot-guided Adversarial Example Construction for Evaluating Open-domain Story Generation
CARP (Contrastive Authoring and Reviewing Pairing) 2021 Cut the CARP: Fishing for zero-shot story evaluation
Choose Your Own Adventure Evaluation – pairwise model human evaluation 2021 Choose Your Own Adventure: Paired Suggestions in Collaborative Writing for Evaluating Story Generation Models
SuQA (SUmmarizer-augmented Question Answering) 2021 Summarize-then-Answer: Generating Concise Explanations for Multi-hop Reading Comprehension
RoFT (Real or Fake Text) 2020 RoFT: A Tool for Evaluating Human Detection of Machine-Generated Text
Do Massively Pretrained Language Models Make Better Storytellers? 2019 Do Massively Pretrained Language Models Make Better Storytellers?
Sentence Mover's Similarity 2019 Sentence Mover’s Similarity: Automatic Evaluation for Multi-Sentence Texts
BookTest – Cloze Test using Project Gutenberg 2017 Embracing Data Abundance
Story Cloze Test 2016 A Corpus and Cloze Evaluation for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Stories and LSDSem 2017 Shared Task: The Story Cloze Test
Who-did-What – Cloze Test using LDC English Gigaword newswire corpus 2016 Who did What: A Large-Scale Person-Centered Cloze Dataset
Narrative Cloze Test 2008 Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Event Chains

Data Scrapers & Processors

Dataset
 Info
ScreenPy parsing and annotating screenplays
TropeScraper films and corresponding tropes from TV Tropes
Novel Chapter Summaries full book chapters and their summaries
Archive of Our Own Scraper scraper for Archive of Our Own fanfiction
Fanfiction Scraper scraper for fanfiction.net
BookNLP process your own book data
Newspaper3k newspaper scraper Python library
Homemade BookCorpus recreation of BookCorpus

Interactive Fiction Environments

Interactive Fiction Agents

Story Planning Systems

Planner
 Year
 Papers
PDDLEGO - itarative plan construction with PDDL and LLMs 2024 PDDLEGO: Iterative Planning in Textual Environments
Sabre - next-gen Glaive 2021 Sabre: A Narrative Planner Supporting Intention and Deep Theory of Mind
Winnow - "declarative domain-specific query language for story sifting" 2021 Winnow: A Domain-Specific Language for Incremental Story Sifting
Belief and Intentional PDDL 2020 Using Domain Compilation to Add Belief to Narrative Planners
StoryAssembler - "a narrative system for procedurally generating choice-based interactive narratives" 2019 StoryAssembler: An Engine for Generating Dynamic Choice-Driven Narratives
Felt - "simple story sifting and simulation engine for emergent narrative play experiences" 2019 Felt: A Simple Story Sifter
Partial Order Causal-Link (POCL) Planner (Python) 2019
Recurve (C++) - decompositional planner 2016
Glaive - a fast planner for multi-agent stories 2014 Glaive: a state-space narrative planner supporting intentionality and conflict
STRIPS Planner (Python) 2012

Story Generation Code

Code
 Year
 Papers
IBSEN - director-actor agent collaboration 2024 IBSEN: Director-Actor Agent Collaboration for Controllable and Interactive Drama Script Generation
Collaborative Comic Generation 2024 Collaborative Comic Generation: Integrating Visual Narrative Theories with AI Models for Enhanced Creativity
LegalStories - generating stories and questions about legal concepts 2024 Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling
DRAGN Town Quests 2023 Personalized Quest and Dialogue Generation in Role-Playing Games: A Knowledge Graph- and Language Model-based Approach
ConPer - personality-focused characters in stories 2022 Persona-Guided Planning for Controlling the Protagonist’s Persona in Story Generation
DOC (Detailed Outline Control) - generate stories from outlines with OPT 2022 DOC: Improving Long Story Coherence With Detailed Outline Control
Re^3 (Recursive Reprompting and Revision) - code to generate stories from premises with GPT-3 2022 Re3: Generating Longer Stories With Recursive Reprompting and Revision
COINS (COntextualized Inference Rules for Narrative Story Completion) 2021 COINS: Dynamically Generating COntextualized Inference Rules for Narrative Story Completion
C2PO (Causal, Commonsense Plot Ordering) 2021 Automated Storytelling via Causal, Commonsense Plot Ordering
TD-VAE for Story Generation 2021 A Temporal Variational Model for Story Generation
Story Gen BART 2020 Content Planning for Neural Story Generation with Aristotelian Rescoring
Story Realization 2020 Story Realization: Expanding Plot Events into Sentences
Infilling by Language Modeling (ILM) 2020 Enabling Language Models to Fill in the Blanks
Switching Linear Dynamical System (SLDS) 2020 Generating Narrative Text in a Switching Dynamical System
Label Semantics for Predicting Emotional Reactions 2020 Modeling Label Semantics for Predicting Emotional Reactions
Paranoid Transformer 2020 Paranoid Transformer: Reading Narrative of Madness as Computational Approach to Creativity
SoCP (Storytelling of multi-Character Psychology) 2020 Controllable Multi-Character Psychology-Oriented Story Generation
PlotMachines 2020 PlotMachines: Outline-Conditioned Generation with Dynamic Plot State Tracking
Toward Better Storylines with Sentence-Level Language Models 2020 Toward Better Storylines with Sentence-Level Language Models
AI Dungeon 2 2019
Plan-And-Write 2019 Plan-and-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling
EnGen 2018 Neural text generation in stories using entity representations as context
ASTER (Automated Story-Telling using Event Representations) 2018 Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets
Talk of the Town 2016 Characters Who Speak Their Minds: Dialogue Generation in Talk of the Town and Simulating Character Knowledge Phenomena in Talk of the Town
Creative Help 2015 Creative Help: A Story Writing Assistant

Libraries & Toolkits

Library
 Info
OpenAI GPT-3, ChatGPT, GPT-4
Hugging Face Hugging Face provides state-of-the-art general-purpose neural language model architectures like BERT, GPT-2, and others.
Hugging Face Transformer Library
AllenNLP Deep learning for NLP with state of the art models
Spacy "Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing" in Python
NLTK - Natural Language Toolkit Basic NLP tools for Python & interfacing with some external models
Stanford NLP various NLP models in Java
Stanza Stanford NLP for Python
ConvKit Cornell Conversation Analysis Toolkit
Open IE information extraction on sentences

Knowledge Bases & Commonsense Reasoning

Knowledge Base
 Year
 Papers
 Hugging Face Link
CultureBank 2024 CultureBank: An Online Community-Driven Knowledge Base Towards Culturally Aware Language Technologies https://huggingface.co/collections/SALT-NLP/culturebank-6626ee7dcd54f5fffb6769fe
Riveter 💪 - extract connotation frames 2023 Connotation Frames of Power and Agency in Modern Films and Riveter: Measuring Power and Social Dynamics Between Entities
(Comet-) ATOMIC 2020 - updated ATOMIC 2021 COMET-ATOMIC 2020: On Symbolic and Neural Commonsense Knowledge Graphs
SCRUPLES (Subreddit Corpus Requiring Understanding Principles in Life-like Ethical Situations) - ethical judgements 2021 SCRUPLES: A Corpus of Community Ethical Judgments on 32,000 Real-life Anecdotes
COLLIE-V (Comprehensive OntoLogy and Lexicon In English - Verb) 2020 A Broad-Coverage Deep Semantic Lexicon for Verbs
Eraser - Movie Rationales 2020 ERASER: A Benchmark to Evaluate Rationalized NLP Models https://huggingface.co/datasets/eraser-benchmark/movie_rationales
GLUCOSE (GeneraLized and COntextualized Story Explanations) 2020 GLUCOSE: GeneraLized and COntextualized Story Explanations https://huggingface.co/datasets/glucose
CausalBank 2020 Guided Generation of Cause and Effect
PeKo (Precondition Knowledge) - event preconditions 2020 Modeling Preconditions in Text with a Crowd-sourced Dataset
Social Chemistry 2020 Social Chemistry 101: Learning to Reason about Social and Moral Norms
ATOMIC (ATlas Of MachIne Commonsense) - social commonsense reasoning 2019 ATOMIC: An Atlas of Machine Commonsense for If-Then Reasoning https://huggingface.co/datasets/atomic
COMET (COMmonsEnse Transformers) - uses ATOMIC and ConceptNet 2019 COMET: Commonsense Transformers for Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction
HellaSwag (Harder Endings, Longer contexts, and Low-shot Activities for Situations With Adversarial Generations) - commonsense inference (harder SWAG) 2019 HellaSwag: Can a Machine Really Finish Your Sentence? https://huggingface.co/datasets/hellaswag
CLUTRR (Compositional Language Understanding with Text-based Relational Reasoning) 2019 CLUTRR: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Inductive Reasoning from Text https://huggingface.co/datasets/CLUTRR/v1
SWAG (Situations With Adversarial Generations) - NLI from video captions 2018 SWAG: A Large-Scale Adversarial Dataset for Grounded Commonsense Inference https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/swag
VerbNet 2005, 2018 VerbNet: A Broad-Coverage, Comprehensive Verb Lexicon and Integrating Generative Lexicon Event Structures into VerbNet
ECIpedia (Elementary Composable Ideas) - ECIs from DARPA's Communicating with Computers program 2018 Assembling the ECIpedia: Refining concepts in contex
ConceptNet 5 2017 ConceptNet 5.5: An Open Multilingual Graph of General Knowledge https://huggingface.co/datasets/conceptnet5
Open-SESAME (open-source SEmi-markov Softmax-margin ArguMEnt parser) - FrameNet frame extraction with RNNs 2017 Frame-Semantic Parsing with Softmax-Margin Segmental RNNs and a Syntactic Scaffold
FrameNet 1997, 2016 FrameNet II: Extended Theory and Practice https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/framenet
The NOC (Non-Official Characterization) List - pop culture knowledge 2016 Round Up The Usual Suspects: Knowledge-Based Metaphor Generation
VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner) 2014 VADER: A Parsimonious Rule-based Model for Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Text
NU-LEX - combines WordNet, VerbNet, and Wiktionary 2011 NULEX: An Open-License Broad Coverage Lexicon
WordNet - hierarchical dictionary 1985, 1998, 2005 WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database

Extras

Programming Languages & Authoring Tools for Writing Interactive Fiction

Notable IF Games

RPG/IF Inspiration

Name
 Info
Polygon's Favorite Actual Play Podcasts Personal recommendation: The Adventure Zone
Actual Play Podcasts
Roll 20 Play tabletop games with friends virtually
chooseyourstory.com
AI Dungeon
Interactive Fiction on Itch.io Find cool indie IF games
Interactive Fiction Database IMDb for IF
Interactive Fiction Wiki

Related Courses

Course
 Taught By
 Year
Interactive Narrative Nick Montfort 2019 (Fall)
Interactive Fiction and Text Generation Lara J. Martin & Chris Callison-Burch 2022 (Spring)
AI Storytelling in Virtual Worlds Mark Riedl 2022 (Spring)
Computational Poetics Kathy Wu 2021 (Spring & Fall)

Generators for TRPGs and IF

Name
 Info
Picrew Make customizable character images
Fantasy Map Generator
RPG Tinker D&D 5e NPC Generator
AnyDice Dice Probability Calculator
Print graph paper Just blank graph paper!
donjon Random generators for tabletop games
RPG Maps in Wolfram Language Code to tile hex pieces together to make a map
RPG Map Editor 2 Downloadable app for making maps
RPGgen A collection of generators

Various Tools

Name
 Info
Versu "an engine for telling interactive stories about people"
WOOL "dialogue platform for creating virtual agent conversations"
Sudo Write "Bust writer’s block with our magical writing AI."
Verse by Verse "An experimental AI-powered muse that helps you compose poetry inspired by classic American poets"
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