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Chinese Poetry Generation with Flexible Styles

Computation and Language 2018-09-13 v2

Abstract

Research has shown that sequence-to-sequence neural models, particularly those with the attention mechanism, can successfully generate classical Chinese poems. However, neural models are not capable of generating poems that match specific styles, such as the impulsive style of Li Bai, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. This work proposes a memory-augmented neural model to enable the generation of style-specific poetry. The key idea is a memory structure that stores how poems with a desired style were generated by humans, and uses similar fragments to adjust the generation. We demonstrate that the proposed algorithm generates poems with flexible styles, including styles of a particular era and an individual poet.

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@article{arxiv.1807.06500,
  title  = {Chinese Poetry Generation with Flexible Styles},
  author = {Jiyuan Zhang and Dong Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.06500},
  year   = {2018}
}

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