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Word embeddings generated by neural network methods such as word2vec (W2V) are well known to exhibit seemingly linear behaviour, e.g. the embeddings of analogy "woman is to queen as man is to king" approximately describe a parallelogram.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Carl Allen , Timothy Hospedales

Natural Language Inference is an important task for Natural Language Understanding. It is concerned with classifying the logical relation between two sentences. In this paper, we propose several text generative neural networks for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Janez Starc , Dunja Mladenić

Poetry generation has long been a challenge for artificial intelligence. In the scope of Japanese poetry generation, many researchers have paid attention to Haiku generation, but few have focused on Waka generation. To further explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yuka Takeishi , Mingxuan Niu , Jing Luo , Zhong Jin , Xinyu Yang

Contrastive learning has been successfully used for retrieval of semantically aligned sentences, but it often requires large batch sizes or careful engineering to work well. In this paper, we instead propose a generative model for learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 John Wieting , Jonathan H. Clark , William W. Cohen , Graham Neubig , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Humor, a culturally nuanced aspect of human language, poses challenges for computational understanding and generation, especially in Chinese humor, which remains relatively unexplored in the NLP community. This paper investigates the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Rongwu Xu

Semantic Similarity between two sentences can be defined as a way to determine how related or unrelated two sentences are. The task of Semantic Similarity in terms of distributed representations can be thought to be generating sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Richa Sharma , Muktabh Mayank Srivastava

Lyric-to-melody generation is an important task in automatic songwriting. Previous lyric-to-melody generation systems usually adopt end-to-end models that directly generate melodies from lyrics, which suffer from several issues: 1) lack of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Zeqian Ju , Peiling Lu , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Chen Zhang , Songruoyao Wu , Kejun Zhang , Xiangyang Li , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

Prompt engineering has emerged as a useful way studying the algorithmic tendencies and biases of large language models. Meanwhile creatives and academics have leveraged LLMs to develop creative works and explore the boundaries of their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-08 P. D. Edgar , Alia Hall

Emojis have become a very popular part of daily digital communication. Their appeal comes largely in part due to their ability to capture and elicit emotions in a more subtle and nuanced way than just plain text is able to. In line with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Dianna Radpour , Vivek Bheda

Modern NLP defines the task of style transfer as modifying the style of a given sentence without appreciably changing its semantics, which implies that the outputs of style transfer systems should be paraphrases of their inputs. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Kalpesh Krishna , John Wieting , Mohit Iyyer

Speech synthesis for poetry is challenging due to specific intonation patterns inherent to poetic speech. In this work, we propose an approach to synthesise poems with almost human like naturalness in order to enable literary scholars to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-20 Julia Koch , Florian Lux , Nadja Schauffler , Toni Bernhart , Felix Dieterle , Jonas Kuhn , Sandra Richter , Gabriel Viehhauser , Ngoc Thang Vu

GANs have been shown to perform exceedingly well on tasks pertaining to image generation and style transfer. In the field of language modelling, word embeddings such as GLoVe and word2vec are state-of-the-art methods for applying neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Afroz Ahamad

Recent work has shown that a multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) model can be used to judge how well a sentence paraphrases another sentence in the same language (Thompson and Post, 2020); however, attempting to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Brian Thompson , Matt Post

As an essential step towards computer creativity, automatic poetry generation has gained increasing attention these years. Though recent neural models make prominent progress in some criteria of poetry quality, generated poems still suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Xiaoyuan Yi , Ruoyu Li , Cheng Yang , Wenhao Li , Maosong Sun

Lyrics alignment in long music recordings can be memory exhaustive when performed in a single pass. In this study, we present a novel method that performs audio-to-lyrics alignment with a low memory consumption footprint regardless of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Emir Demirel , Sven Ahlbäck , Simon Dixon

Recently, generative adversarial networks have gained a lot of popularity for image generation tasks. However, such models are associated with complex learning mechanisms and demand very large relevant datasets. This work borrows concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Shagan Sah , Chi Zhang , Thang Nguyen , Dheeraj Kumar Peri , Ameya Shringi , Raymond Ptucha

Generating coherent, grammatically correct, and meaningful text is very challenging, however, it is crucial to many modern NLP systems. So far, research has mostly focused on English language, for other languages both standardized datasets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Zein Shaheen , Gerhard Wohlgenannt , Bassel Zaity , Dmitry Mouromtsev , Vadim Pak

This paper presents the design and initial assessment of a novel device that uses generative AI to facilitate creative ideation, inspiration, and reflective thought. Inspired by magnetic poetry, which was originally designed to help…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jon McCormack , Elliott Wilson , Nina Rajcic , Maria Teresa Llano

We analyze two Natural Language Inference data sets with respect to their linguistic features. The goal is to identify those syntactic and semantic properties that are particularly hard to comprehend for a machine learning model. To this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Maren Pielka , Felix Rode , Lisa Pucknat , Tobias Deußer , Rafet Sifa

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