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Character Sequence Models for ColorfulWords

Computation and Language 2016-10-31 v2

Abstract

We present a neural network architecture to predict a point in color space from the sequence of characters in the color's name. Using large scale color--name pairs obtained from an online color design forum, we evaluate our model on a "color Turing test" and find that, given a name, the colors predicted by our model are preferred by annotators to color names created by humans. Our datasets and demo system are available online at colorlab.us.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1609.08777,
  title  = {Character Sequence Models for ColorfulWords},
  author = {Kazuya Kawakami and Chris Dyer and Bryan R. Routledge and Noah A. Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.08777},
  year   = {2016}
}
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