What Makes a Good Story and How Can We Measure It? A Comprehensive Survey of Story Evaluation

Method and contribution

A survey of story-quality criteria, human evaluation, automatic metrics, and evaluation benchmarks.

Places structural criticism within the broader evaluation of coherence, character development, and narrative quality.

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Evaluating the structure of long-form text →

Citation

Dingyi Yang, Qin Jin. What Makes a Good Story and How Can We Measure It? A Comprehensive Survey of Story Evaluation. arXiv.

@misc{yang2024goodstory,
  title = {{What Makes a Good Story and How Can We Measure It? A Comprehensive Survey of Story Evaluation}},
  author = {Yang, Dingyi and Jin, Qin},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14622},
  eprint = {2408.14622},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2408.14622}
}