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languages:
  - en
tags:
  - Story Generation
paperswithcode_id: https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/scifi-tv-plots
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Dataset Description
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A collection of long-running (80+ episodes) science fiction TV show synopses, scraped from Fandom.com wikis. Collected Nov 2017. Each episode is considered a "story".

Contains plot summaries from : 
* Babylon 5 (https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page) - 84 stories
* Doctor Who (https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Who_Wiki) - 311 stories
* Doctor Who spin-offs - 95 stories
* Farscape (https://farscape.fandom.com/wiki/Farscape_Encyclopedia_Project:Main_Page) - 90 stories
* Fringe (https://fringe.fandom.com/wiki/FringeWiki) - 87 stories
* Futurama (https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Futurama_Wiki) - 87 stories
* Stargate (https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Stargate_Wiki) - 351 stories
* Star Trek (https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek) - 701 stories
* Star Wars books (https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page) - 205 stories
* Star Wars Rebels - 65 stories 
* X-Files (https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page) - 200 stories

Total: 2276 stories

Dataset is "eventified" and generalized (see LJ Martin, P Ammanabrolu, X Wang, W Hancock, S Singh, B Harrison, and MO Riedl. Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets, Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2018. for details on these processes.) and split into train-test-validation sets for converting events into full sentences.

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Citation
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@inproceedings{Ammanabrolu2020AAAI, 
title={Story Realization: Expanding Plot Events into Sentences}, 
author={Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Ethan Tien and Wesley Cheung and Zhaochen Luo and William Ma and Lara J. Martin and Mark O. Riedl}, 
journal={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, 
year={2020}, 
volume={34},
number={05},
url={https://ojs.aaai.org//index.php/AAAI/article/view/6232}
}
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Licensing
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The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/