From Role-Play to Drama-Interaction: An LLM Solution

  • Weiqi Wu
  • , Hongqiu Wu
  • , Lai Jiang
  • , Xingyuan Liu
  • , Hai Zhao*
  • , Min Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Drama is a form of storytelling inspired by human creativity, proceeding with a predefined storyline, carrying emotions and thoughts. This paper introduces LLM-based interactive drama, which endows traditional drama with an unprecedented immersion, where a person is allowed to walk into it and interact with the characters and scenes. We define this new artistic genre by 6 essential elements-plot, character, thought, diction, spectacle and interaction-and study the entire pipeline to forge a backbone drama LLM to drive the playing process, which is challenged by limited drama resources, uncontrollable narrative development, and complicated instruction following. We propose Narrative Chain to offer finer control over the narrative progression during interaction with players; Auto-Drama to synthesize drama scripts given arbitrary stories; Sparse Instruction Tuning to allow the model to follow sophisticated instructions. We manually craft 3 scripts, Detective Conan, Harry Potter, Romeo and Juliet, and design a 5-dimension principle to evaluate the drama LLM comprehensively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publicationFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2024
EditorsLun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages3271-3290
Number of pages20
ISBN (Electronic)9798891760998
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Externally publishedYes
EventFindings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2024 - Hybrid, Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: 11 Aug 202416 Aug 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN (Print)0736-587X

Conference

ConferenceFindings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2024
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityHybrid, Bangkok
Period11/08/2416/08/24

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