We propose the Detailed Outline Control (DOC) framework for improving long-range plot coherence when automatically generating several-thousand-word-long stories. DOC consists of two complementary components: a detailed outliner and a detailed controller. The detailed outliner creates a more detailed, hierarchically structured outline, shifting creative burden from the main drafting procedure to the planning stage. The detailed controller ensures the more detailed outline is still respected during generation by controlling story passages to align with outline details. In human evaluations of automatically generated stories, DOC substantially outperforms a strong Re3 baseline (Yang et al., 2022) on plot coherence (22.5% absolute gain), outline relevance (28.2%), and interestingness (20.7%). Humans also judged DOC to be much more controllable in an interactive generation setting.

提出了针对自动生成长篇故事的详细大纲控制(Detailed Outline Control，简称DOC)框架，包括详细大纲和详细控制器两个组件，提高了故事的情节连贯性和可控性，人类评估表明，DOC在情节连贯性、大纲相关性和趣味性方面明显优于Re3基线，并且在交互式生成方面也更易于调节。

利用详细的大纲控制来提高长篇故事的连贯性