Plan-And-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling
Lili Yao, Nanyun Peng, Weischedel Ralph, Kevin Knight, Dongyan Zhao, and Rui Yan, in The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19), 2019.
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@inproceedings{yao2019plan,
title = {Plan-And-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling},
author = {Yao, Lili and Peng, Nanyun and Ralph, Weischedel and Knight, Kevin and Zhao, Dongyan and Yan, Rui},
booktitle = {The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19)},
year = {2019}
}
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