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One of the key points in music recommendation is authoring engaging playlists according to sentiment and emotions. While previous works were mostly based on audio for music discovery and playlists generation, we take advantage of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Loreto Parisi , Simone Francia , Silvio Olivastri , Maria Stella Tavella

Creating a pop song melody according to pre-written lyrics is a typical practice for composers. A computational model of how lyrics are set as melodies is important for automatic composition systems, but an end-to-end lyric-to-melody model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-05 Daiyu Zhang , Ju-Chiang Wang , Katerina Kosta , Jordan B. L. Smith , Shicen Zhou

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

Generating music with coherent structure, harmonious instrumental and vocal elements remains a significant challenge in song generation. Existing language models and diffusion-based methods often struggle to balance global coherence with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Chenyu Yang , Shuai Wang , Hangting Chen , Wei Tan , Jianwei Yu , Haizhou Li

Singing is one of the most cherished forms of human entertainment. However, creating a beautiful song requires an accompaniment that complements the vocals and aligns well with the song instruments and genre. With advancements in deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Quoc-Huy Trinh , Minh-Van Nguyen , Trong-Hieu Nguyen Mau , Khoa Tran , Thanh Do

Although lyrics generation has achieved significant progress in recent years, it has limited practical applications because the generated lyrics cannot be performed without composing compatible melodies. In this work, we bridge this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yusen Sun , Liangyou Li , Qun Liu , Dit-Yan Yeung

Automatic generation of sequences has been a highly explored field in the last years. In particular, natural language processing and automatic music composition have gained importance due to the recent advances in machine learning and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Sebastian Garcia-Valencia , Alejandro Betancourt , Juan G. Lalinde-Pulido

We present an empirical study on embedding the lyrics of a song into a fixed-dimensional feature for the purpose of music tagging. Five methods of computing token-level and four methods of computing document-level representations are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Matt McVicar , Bruno Di Giorgi , Baris Dundar , Matthias Mauch

Conventional music visualisation systems rely on handcrafted ad hoc transformations of shapes and colours that offer only limited expressiveness. We propose two novel pipelines for automatically generating music videos from any…

A model of music needs to have the ability to recall past details and have a clear, coherent understanding of musical structure. Detailed in the paper is a deep reinforcement learning architecture that predicts and generates polyphonic…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Nikhil Kotecha

Music genre classification, especially using lyrics alone, remains a challenging topic in Music Information Retrieval. In this study we apply recurrent neural network models to classify a large dataset of intact song lyrics. As lyrics…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Alexandros Tsaptsinos

While end-to-end lyrics-to-song models offer convenience for casual users, professional songwriters require score-to-song systems that allow them to retain authorship over the core melody. However, existing score-to-song methods are limited…

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

Over 60,000 songs are released on Spotify every day, and the competition for the listener's attention is immense. In that regard, the importance of captivating and inviting cover art cannot be underestimated, because it is deeply entangled…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-18 James Marien , Sam Leroux , Bart Dhoedt , Cedric De Boom

Composing poetry or lyrics involves several creative factors, but a challenging aspect of generation is the adherence to a more or less strict metric and rhyming pattern. To address this challenge specifically, previous work on the task has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Tommaso Pasini , Alejo López-Ávila , Husam Quteineh , Gerasimos Lampouras , Jinhua Du , Yubing Wang , Ze Li , Yusen Sun

This paper focuses on Code Generation task that aims at generating relevant code fragments according to given natural language descriptions. In the process of software development, developers often encounter two scenarios. One is requested…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Zezhou Yang , Sirong Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Zhenhao Li , Ge Li , Michael Lyu

The current wave of deep learning (the hyper-vitamined return of artificial neural networks) applies not only to traditional statistical machine learning tasks: prediction and classification (e.g., for weather prediction and pattern…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Jean-Pierre Briot

Despite the innovations in deep learning and generative AI, creating long term structure as well as the layers of repeated structure common in musical works remains an open challenge in music generation. We propose an attention layer that…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Sophia Hager , Kathleen Hablutzel , Katherine M. Kinnaird

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled users to provide highly specific music recommendation requests using natural language prompts (e.g. "Can you recommend some old classics for slow dancing?"). In this setup, the…

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