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Wordcraft: a Human-AI Collaborative Editor for Story Writing

@article{Coenen2021WordcraftAH,
  title={Wordcraft: a Human-AI Collaborative Editor for Story Writing},
  author={Andy Coenen and Luke Davis and Daphne Ippolito and Emily Reif and Ann Yuan},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2021},
  volume={abs/2107.07430}
}
As neural language models grow in effectiveness, they are increasingly being applied in real-world settings. However these applications tend to be limited in the modes of interaction they support. In this extended abstract, we propose Wordcraft, an AI-assisted editor for story writing in which a writer and a dialog system collaborate to write a story. Our novel interface uses few-shot learning and the natural affordances of conversation to support a variety of interactions. Our editor provides… 
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