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AfriKI: Machine-in-the-Loop Afrikaans Poetry Generation

Computation and Language 2021-03-31 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

This paper proposes a generative language model called AfriKI. Our approach is based on an LSTM architecture trained on a small corpus of contemporary fiction. With the aim of promoting human creativity, we use the model as an authoring tool to explore machine-in-the-loop Afrikaans poetry generation. To our knowledge, this is the first study to attempt creative text generation in Afrikaans.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2103.16190,
  title  = {AfriKI: Machine-in-the-Loop Afrikaans Poetry Generation},
  author = {Imke van Heerden and Anil Bas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.16190},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Accepted to EACL 2021 Workshop on AfricaNLP (non-archival)

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