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ROCStories
ROCStories is a collection of commonsense short stories. The corpus consists of 100,000 five-sentence stories. Each story logically follows everyday topics created by Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. These stories contain a variety of commonsense causal and temporal relations between everyday events. Writers also develop an additional 3,742 Story Cloze Test stories which contain a four-sentence-long body and two candidate endings. The endings were collected by asking Mechanical Turk workers to write both a right ending and a wrong ending after eliminating original endings of given short stories. Both endings were required to make logical sense and include at least one character from the main story line. The published ROCStories dataset is constructed with ROCStories as a training set that includes 98,162 stories that exclude candidate wrong endings, an evaluation set, and a test set, which have the same structure (1 body + 2 candidate endings) and a size of 1,871.
Source: Incorporating Structured Commonsense Knowledge in Story Completion Image Source: https://cs.rochester.edu/nlp/rocstories/
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
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| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Text Generation | ROCStories | Beam search + A*esque (beam) BLEU-1 34.4 | NeuroLogic A*esque Decoding: Constrained Text Generation... | GXimingLu/a_star_neurologic | 4 | Compare |
| Emotion Classification | ROCStories | Semi-supervision F1 65.88 | Modeling Label Semantics for Predicting Emotional Reactions | StonyBrookNLP/emotion-label-semantics | 2 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
3 shown of 3 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 152. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
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| NeuroLogic A*esque Decoding: Constrained Text Generation with Lookahead Heuristics | 1 | 4 | 16 Dec 2021 | not harvested |
| Modeling Label Semantics for Predicting Emotional Reactions | 1 | 1 | 9 Jun 2020 | not harvested |
| Modeling Naive Psychology of Characters in Simple Commonsense Stories | 0 | 1 | 16 May 2018 | not harvested |
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