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This paper studies constrained text generation, which is to generate sentences under certain pre-conditions. We focus on CommonGen, the task of generating text based on a set of concepts, as a representative task of constrained text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Yixian Liu , Liwen Zhang , Wenjuan Han , Yue Zhang , Kewei Tu

Generic generation and manipulation of text is challenging and has limited success compared to recent deep generative modeling in visual domain. This paper aims at generating plausible natural language sentences, whose attributes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Zhiting Hu , Zichao Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Eric P. Xing

Recent developments in neural networks have led to the advance in data-to-text generation. However, the lack of ability of neural models to control the structure of generated output can be limiting in certain real-world applications. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Yixuan Su , David Vandyke , Sihui Wang , Yimai Fang , Nigel Collier

Automatic Chinese classical poetry generation has attracted much research interest, but achieving effective control over format and content simultaneously remains challenging. Traditional systems usually accept keywords as user inputs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Chengyue Yu , Lei Zang , Jiaotuan Wang , Chenyi Zhuang , Jinjie Gu

We present a new model for singing synthesis based on a modified version of the WaveNet architecture. Instead of modeling raw waveform, we model features produced by a parametric vocoder that separates the influence of pitch and timbre.…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada

Lyrics transcription of polyphonic music is challenging not only because the singing vocals are corrupted by the background music, but also because the background music and the singing style vary across music genres, such as pop, metal, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Xiaoxue Gao , Chitralekha Gupta , Haizhou Li

Recently, a variety of neural models have been proposed for lyrics generation. However, most previous work completes the generation process in a single pass with little human intervention. We believe that lyrics creation is a creative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Rongsheng Zhang , Xiaoxi Mao , Le Li , Lin Jiang , Lin Chen , Zhiwei Hu , Yadong Xi , Changjie Fan , Minlie Huang

The development of general-domain neural machine translation (NMT) methods has advanced significantly in recent years, but the lack of naturalness and musical constraints in the outputs makes them unable to produce singable lyric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Longshen Ou , Xichu Ma , Min-Yen Kan , Ye Wang

We propose Composition Sampling, a simple but effective method to generate diverse outputs for conditional generation of higher quality compared to previous stochastic decoding strategies. It builds on recently proposed plan-based neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Shashi Narayan , Gonçalo Simões , Yao Zhao , Joshua Maynez , Dipanjan Das , Michael Collins , Mirella Lapata

Lyric-to-melody generation is a highly challenging task in the field of AI music generation. Due to the difficulty of learning strict yet weak correlations between lyrics and melodies, previous methods have suffered from weak…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Li Chai , Donglin Wang

This work aims to produce translations that convey source language content at a formality level that is appropriate for a particular audience. Framing this problem as a neural sequence-to-sequence task ideally requires training triplets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Xing Niu , Marine Carpuat

Large-scale pre-trained language models have demonstrated strong capabilities of generating realistic text. However, it remains challenging to control the generation results. Previous approaches such as prompting are far from sufficient,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Xu Zou , Da Yin , Qingyang Zhong , Ming Ding , Hongxia Yang , Zhilin Yang , Jie Tang

Most work on neural natural language generation (NNLG) focus on controlling the content of the generated text. We experiment with controlling several stylistic aspects of the generated text, in addition to its content. The method is based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Jessica Ficler , Yoav Goldberg

Controlling the output of Large Language Models (LLMs) through context-sensitive constraints has emerged as a promising approach to overcome the limitations of Context-Free Grammars (CFGs) in guaranteeing generation validity. However, such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mohammad Albinhassan , Pranava Madhyastha , Mark Law , Alessandra Russo

Despite recent progress of pre-trained language models on generating fluent text, existing methods still suffer from incoherence problems in long-form text generation tasks that require proper content control and planning to form a coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zhe Hu , Hou Pong Chan , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Hua Wu , Lifu Huang

Structured texts refer to texts containing structured elements beyond plain texts, such as code snippets and placeholders. Such structured texts increasingly require segmentation into semantically meaningful components, which cannot be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Haoyuan Li , Zhengyuan Shen , Sullam Jeoung , Yueyan Chen , Jiayu Li , Qi Zhu , Shuai Wang , Vassilis Ioannidis , Huzefa Rangwala

This paper introduces a new approach to generating strongly constrained texts. We consider standardized sentence generation for the typical application of vision screening. To solve this problem, we formalize it as a discrete combinatorial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Alexandre Bonlarron , Aurélie Calabrèse , Pierre Kornprobst , Jean-Charles Régin

Song generation focuses on producing controllable high-quality songs based on various prompts. However, existing methods struggle to generate vocals and accompaniments with prompt-based control and proper alignment. Additionally, they fall…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Yu Zhang , Wenxiang Guo , Changhao Pan , Zhiyuan Zhu , Ruiqi Li , Jingyu Lu , Rongjie Huang , Ruiyuan Zhang , Zhiqing Hong , Ziyue Jiang , Zhou Zhao

We present Compound Conditioned ControlNet, C3Net, a novel generative neural architecture taking conditions from multiple modalities and synthesizing multimodal contents simultaneously (e.g., image, text, audio). C3Net adapts the ControlNet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Juntao Zhang , Yuehuai Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

In this paper, we study the task of improving the cohesion and coherence of long-form text generated by language models. To this end, we propose RSTGen, a framework that utilises Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), a classical language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Rilwan A. Adewoyin , Ritabrata Dutta , Yulan He