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Parody is a figurative device used for mimicking entities for comedic or critical purposes. Parody is intentionally humorous and often involves sarcasm. This paper explores jointly modelling these figurative tropes with the goal of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Xiao Ao , Danae Sánchez Villegas , Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro , Nikolaos Aletras

The quality of natural language texts in fine-tuning datasets plays a critical role in the performance of generative models, particularly in computational creativity tasks such as poem or song lyric generation. Fluency defects in generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Ilya Koziev

Song lyrics convey a meaningful story in a creative manner with complex rhythmic patterns. Researchers have been successful in generating and analyisng lyrics for poetry and songs in English and Chinese. But there are no works which explore…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Naman Jain , Ankush Chauhan , Atharva Chewale , Ojas Mithbavkar , Ujjaval Shah , Mayank Singh

Paraphrase generation is a fundamental and long-standing task in natural language processing. In this paper, we concentrate on two contributions to the task: (1) we propose Retrieval Augmented Prompt Tuning (RAPT) as a parameter-efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jishnu Ray Chowdhury , Yong Zhuang , Shuyi Wang

Generative Large Language Models have shown impressive in-context learning abilities, performing well across various tasks with just a prompt. Previous melody-to-lyric research has been limited by scarce high-quality aligned data and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Hong-Hsiang Liu , Yi-Wen Liu

Rap generation, which aims to produce lyrics and corresponding singing beats, needs to model both rhymes and rhythms. Previous works for rap generation focused on rhyming lyrics but ignored rhythmic beats, which are important for rap…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Lanqing Xue , Kaitao Song , Duocai Wu , Xu Tan , Nevin L. Zhang , Tao Qin , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Tie-Yan Liu

In this paper, we propose a generative model which learns the relationship between language and human action in order to generate a human action sequence given a sentence describing human behavior. The proposed generative model is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Hyemin Ahn , Timothy Ha , Yunho Choi , Hwiyeon Yoo , Songhwai Oh

Speech recognition is a well developed research field so that the current state of the art systems are being used in many applications in the software industry, yet as by today, there still does not exist such robust system for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-27 Emir Demirel , Sven Ahlback , Simon Dixon

Many natural language generation tasks, such as abstractive summarization and text simplification, are paraphrase-orientated. In these tasks, copying and rewriting are two main writing modes. Most previous sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Ziqiang Cao , Chuwei Luo , Wenjie Li , Sujian Li

Audio-based lyrics matching can be an appealing alternative to other content-based retrieval approaches, but existing methods often suffer from limited reproducibility and inconsistent baselines. In this work, we introduce WEALY, a fully…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Eleonora Mancini , Joan Serrà , Paolo Torroni , Yuki Mitsufuji

Automatic song writing aims to compose a song (lyric and/or melody) by machine, which is an interesting topic in both academia and industry. In automatic song writing, lyric-to-melody generation and melody-to-lyric generation are two…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Zhonghao Sheng , Kaitao Song , Xu Tan , Yi Ren , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Tao Qin

Adversarial examples, which are inputs deliberately perturbed with imperceptible changes to induce model errors, have raised serious concerns for the reliability and security of deep neural networks (DNNs). While adversarial attacks have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Xiaoyin Yi , Jiacheng Huang

We propose a computational model of speech production combining a pre-trained neural articulatory synthesizer able to reproduce complex speech stimuli from a limited set of interpretable articulatory parameters, a DNN-based internal forward…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Marc-Antoine Georges , Julien Diard , Laurent Girin , Jean-Luc Schwartz , Thomas Hueber

Computer poetry generation is our first step towards computer writing. Writing must have a theme. The current approaches of using sequence-to-sequence models with attention often produce non-thematic poems. We present a novel conditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Xiaopeng Yang , Xiaowen Lin , Shunda Suo , Ming Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise in lyric-to-melody generation, but models trained with Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) often produce musically implausible melodies with issues like poor rhythm and unsuitable vocal ranges, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hao Meng , Siyuan Zheng , Shuran Zhou , Qiangqiang Wang , Yang Song

Abstract This project presents a system of neural networks to translate between images and melodies. Autoencoders compress the information in samples to abstract representation. A translation network learns a set of correspondences between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Karl Wienand , Wolfgang M. Heckl

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

Molecule generation is a task made very difficult by the complex ways in which we represent molecules computationally. A common technique used in molecular generative modeling is to use SMILES strings with recurrent neural networks built…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-28 Divahar Sivanesan

Lyrics transcription of polyphonic music is challenging because singing vocals are corrupted by the background music. To improve the robustness of lyrics transcription to the background music, we propose a strategy of combining the features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-25 Xiaoxue Gao , Chitralekha Gupta , Haizhou Li

Algorithmic music composition is a way of composing musical pieces with minimal to no human intervention. While recurrent neural networks are traditionally applied to many sequence-to-sequence prediction tasks, including successful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Moseli Mots'oehli , Anna Sergeevna Bosman , Johan Pieter De Villiers