Resources

Story Datasets

Dataset	Papers	Paper Code	Hugging Face Link	Leaderboard
FanFiction Archive - fanfiction.net	Beyond Canonical Texts: A Computational Analysis of Fanfiction and Harry Potter and the Action Prediction Challenge from Natural Language	http://github.com/smilli/fanfiction
Deep Dungeons and Dragons (DDD) Corpus - roleplayerguild.com	Deep Dungeons and Dragons: Learning Character-Action Interactions from Role-Playing Game Transcripts
ROCStories - 5-sentence crowdsourced stories for Story Cloze Test	A Corpus and Cloze Evaluation for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Stories and LSDSem 2017 Shared Task: The Story Cloze Test	http://github.com/smilli/fanfiction		https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/15333
CaTeRS - Causal and temporal relations using ROC Stories	CaTeRS: Causal and Temporal Relation Scheme for Semantic Annotation of Event Structures
Scifi TV Plots - science fiction shows on fandom.com	Story Realization: Expanding Plot Events into Sentences	https://github.com/rajammanabrolu/StoryRealization	https://huggingface.co/datasets/lara-martin/Scifi_TV_Shows
WritingPrompts - r/WritingPrompts	Hierarchical Neural Story Generation	https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq	https://huggingface.co/datasets/rewardsignal/reddit_writing_prompts
Lit Bank - Project Gutenberg	An Annotated Dataset of Literary Entities and Literary Event Detection	https://github.com/dbamman/litbank
STORIUM - storium.com (gamified storytelling)	STORIUM: A Dataset and Evaluation Platform for Machine-in-the-Loop Story Generation	https://github.com/dojoteef/storium-gpt2
ESTER - tagged events from news articles from the TempEval3(TE3) workshop	ESTER: A Machine Reading Comprehension Dataset for Event Semantic Relation Reasoning	https://github.com/PlusLabNLP/ESTER		https://eventqa.github.io/
CMU Movie Summary Corpus - Wikipedia movie summaries	Learning Latent Personas of Film Characters
The Children’s Book Test - kids' books from Project Gutenberg	The Goldilocks Principle: Reading Children’s Books with Explicit Memory Representations	https://github.com/facebookarchive/bAbI-tasks
Cornell Movie Dialog - movie scripts and metadata	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
ScriptWriter - from GraphMovie, which no longer exists (descriptions of movie plots)	ScriptWriter: Narrative-Guided Script Generation	https://github.com/DaoD/ScriptWriter
NarrativeQA - movie scripts from various sources and Project Gutenberg books	The NarrativeQA Reading Comprehension Challenge	https://github.com/deepmind/narrativeqa	https://huggingface.co/datasets/narrativeqa	https://paperswithcode.com/sota/question-answering-on-narrativeqa
MCTest - 150-300 word stories written by crowdworkers	MCTest: A Challenge Dataset for the Open-Domain Machine Comprehension of Text		https://huggingface.co/datasets/sagnikrayc/mctest	https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/mctest
InSentive - authored stories from BookCorpus	Inspiration through Observation: Demonstrating the Influence of Automatically Generated Text on Creative Writing	https://github.com/roemmele/InSentive
dScryb - human-written scene descriptions

Mixed Visual + Textual Datasets

Dataset	Papers	Paper Code	Hugging Face Link
BookCorpus	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
COIN	COIN: A Large-scale Dataset for Comprehensive Instructional Video Analysis	https://github.com/coin-dataset
WikiHow	WikiHow: A Large Scale Text Summarization Dataset	https://github.com/mahnazkoupaee/WikiHow-Dataset	https://huggingface.co/datasets/wikihow
VIST	Visual Storytelling
MovieGraphs	MovieGraphs: Towards Understanding Human-Centric Situations from Videos

Cloze Tests

Dataset	Papers	Leaderboard
Narrative Cloze Test	Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Event Chains
Story Cloze Test	A Corpus and Cloze Evaluation for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Stories and LSDSem 2017 Shared Task: The Story Cloze Test	https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/15333
BookTest - Cloze Test using Project Gutenberg	Embracing Data Abundance
Who-did-What - Cloze Test using LDC English Gigaword newswire corpus	Who did What: A Large-Scale Person-Centered Cloze Dataset	https://tticnlp.github.io/who_did_what/leaderBoard.html

Data Scrapers & Processors

• Archive of Our Own Scraper
• Fanfiction Scraper
• Process your own book data: BookNLP

IF Environments

Dataset	Papers	Paper Code
LIGHT	Learning to Speak and Act in a Fantasy Text Adventure Game	https://github.com/facebookresearch/ParlAI
Jericho	Modeling Worlds in Text and Interactive Fiction Games: A Colossal Adventure	https://github.com/JerichoWorld/JerichoWorld
TextWorld	TextWorld: A Learning Environment for Text-based Games	https://github.com/Microsoft/TextWorld

Planning Systems

Planner/Code	Papers
Glaive	Glaive: a state-space narrative planner supporting intentionality and conflict
StoryAssembler	StoryAssembler: An Engine for Generating Dynamic Choice-Driven Narratives
Belief and Intentional PDDL	Using Domain Compilation to Add Belief to Narrative Planners
STRIPS Planner for Python

Character Modeling

• Versu
• Character Relations

Knowledge Bases

Knowledge Base	Papers	Hugging Face Link
VerbNet	VerbNet: A Broad-Coverage, Comprehensive Verb Lexicon
FrameNet	FrameNet II: Extended Theory and Practice
WordNet	WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database
ConceptNet	ConceptNet 5.5: An Open Multilingual Graph of General Knowledge	https://huggingface.co/datasets/conceptnet5
ATOMIC	ATOMIC: An Atlas of Machine Commonsense for If-Then Reasoning	https://huggingface.co/datasets/atomic
GLUCOSE	GLUCOSE: GeneraLized and COntextualized Story Explanations	https://huggingface.co/datasets/glucose
Power and Agency in modern films	Connotation Frames of Power and Agency in Modern Films
Social Bias Frames	Social Bias Frames: Reasoning about Social and Power Implications of Language
Eraser - Movie Rationales	ERASER: A Benchmark to Evaluate Rationalized NLP Models	https://huggingface.co/datasets/movie_rationales
ECIpedia
The NOC List	Round Up The Usual Suspects: Knowledge-Based Metaphor Generation
NULEX - combines WordNet, VerbNet, and Wiktionary	NULEX: An Open-License Broad Coverage Lexicon
CausalBank	Guided Generation of Cause and Effect

Other Code

Code	Papers
Plot-guided Coherence Evaluation	Plot-guided Adversarial Example Construction for Evaluating Open-domain Story Generation
Story Gen BART	Content Planning for Neural Story Generation with Aristotelian Rescoring
EnGen	Neural text generation in stories using entity representations as context
Choose Your Own Adventure Evaluation	Choose Your Own Adventure: Paired Suggestions in Collaborative Writing for Evaluating Story Generation Models
Sentence Mover's Similarity	Sentence Mover’s Similarity: Automatic Evaluation for Multi-Sentence Texts
AI Dungeon 2
COMET - uses ATOMIC and ConceptNet	COMET: Commonsense Transformers for Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction
Plan-And-Write	Plan-and-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling
ASTER (Automated Story-Telling using Event Representations)	Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets

Libraries & Toolkits

• 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
• Stanza - Stanford NLP for Python
• ConvKit - Cornell Conversation Analysis Toolkit

Tutorials

• How To Make Custom AI-Generated Text With GPT-2 by Max Woolf
• BERT End to End (Fine-tuning + Predicting) in 5 minutes
• How to use Google Speech to Text API to transcribe long audio files
• Video Tutorial - Beginners Guide To Coding An Illustrated Text Adventure Game (with Adventuron Classroom) by Chris Ainsley

Extras

Noteable IF Games in Research

• Save the Date by Chris Cornell (Montolli)
• The Icebound Concordance by Aaron Reed and Jacob Garbe
• Prom Week
• Façade

Inspiration

• Actual Play Podcasts - both of our favorite is The Adventure Zone
• Giant list of Actual Play Podcasts
• Play games with friends on Roll 20
• chooseyourstory.com
• AI Dungeon
• Try some games on Itch.io to figure out what you like and don’t like in an IF game
• Interactive Fiction Database
• Interactive Fiction Wiki

Other Courses

• Nick Montfort’s Interactive Narrative course at MIT

Content Generation for TRPGs and IF

• Print graph paper - just blank graph paper!
• Random Generators for Tabletop Games
• TesselationPlot for RPG Maps
• RPG Map Editor 2
• RPGgen - a collection of generators

Other Languages for Writing Interactive Fiction

• Adventuron Classroom
• Tracery (repo)
• ink (repo)
• Twine (repo)
• Inform 7
• ADRIFT
• TADS
• Quest
• Storychoices
• Varytale