---
title: "StoryCloze"
source: EleutherAI LM Evaluation Harness
source_url: https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness
licence: MIT
domain: agentic-ai
subdomain: eleutherai-lm-eval
date_added: 2026-04-25
---

# StoryCloze

### Paper

Title: `A Corpus and Evaluation Framework for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Stories`
Abstract: `https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01696`

Homepage: https://cs.rochester.edu/nlp/rocstories/

'Story Cloze Test' is a new commonsense reasoning framework for evaluating story understanding, story generation, and script learning. This test requires a system to choose the correct ending to a four-sentence story


### Citation

```
@misc{mostafazadeh2016corpus,
      title={A Corpus and Evaluation Framework for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Stories},
      author={Nasrin Mostafazadeh and
      Nathanael Chambers and
      Xiaodong He and
      Devi Parikh and
      Dhruv Batra and
      Lucy Vanderwende and
      Pushmeet Kohli and
      James Allen},
      year={2016},
      eprint={1604.01696},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```

### Groups and Tasks

#### Groups

* `storycloze`

#### Tasks

* `storycloze_2016`
* `storycloze_2018`

### Checklist

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* [ ] Is the task an existing benchmark in the literature?
  * [ ] Have you referenced the original paper that introduced the task?
  * [ ] If yes, does the original paper provide a reference implementation? If so, have you checked against the reference implementation and documented how to run such a test?


If other tasks on this dataset are already supported:
* [ ] Is the "Main" variant of this task clearly denoted?
* [ ] Have you provided a short sentence in a README on what each new variant adds / evaluates?
* [ ] Have you noted which, if any, published evaluation setups are matched by this variant?
