用叙事理论指导大模型,提升故事生成与理解能力
Narrative Theory-Driven LLM Methods for Automatic Story Generation and Understanding: A Survey
- 基于叙事学理论分类大模型在故事任务中的应用
- 发现生成任务在理论应用和非虚构叙事上仍落后于理解
- 适合对故事结构、理论驱动研究感兴趣的NLP研究者
大语言模型结合叙事理论,在自动故事生成与理解任务中展现出良好前景。本综述考察自然语言处理如何运用大模型方法探讨叙事学中的多样概念。我们采用叙事学中已确立的区分标准对当前研究进行分类,发现:(a) 叙事文本来源远超文学范畴;(b) 理论整合与验证具有潜力;(c) 生成任务在理论应用、后训练方法、非虚构叙事探索及超越情节与叙述层面方面仍落后于理解任务。未来方向不应追求单一通用的‘叙事质量’基准,而应聚焦于:定义并改进基于理论的个体叙事属性度量;持续开展大规模、理论驱动的文学/社会/文化分析;在具体语境中生成故事;以及通过输出结果验证或修正叙事理论。本文为更系统、理论导向的叙事研究提供了基础框架。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Applications of narrative theories using large language models (LLMs) deliver promising methods in automatic story generation and understanding tasks. Our survey examines how natural language processing (NLP) research uses LLM methods to engage with diverse concepts from narrative studies. We use established distinctions from narratology to categorise ongoing efforts and discover the following: \redtext{(a) narrative texts come from diverse sources beyond just literature, (b) theoretical synthesis and validation are potential outcomes, (c) generation tasks lag behind understanding in several ways: theoretical application, post-training methods, exploring non-fiction narratives and addressing narrative levels beyond fabula and discourse.} For future directions, instead of the pursuit of a single, generalised benchmark for `narrative quality', we believe that progress can benefit from efforts that focus on the following: defining and improving theory-based metrics for individual narrative attributes; continue conducting large-scale, theory-driven literary/social/cultural analysis; generating narratives in situated contexts; and continuing experiments where outputs can be used to validate or refine narrative theories. This work provides a contextual foundation for more systematic and theoretically informed narrative research in NLP by providing an overview to ongoing research efforts and the broader narrative studies landscape.
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