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Chinese Poetry Generation with Recurrent Neural Networks

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Zhang, Xingxing, Lapata, Mirella·2014·Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

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We propose a model for Chinese poem generation based on recurrent neural networks which we argue is ideally suited to capturing poetic content and form.Our generator jointly performs content selection ("what to say") and surface realization ("how to say") by learning representations of individual characters, and their combinations into one or more lines as well as how these mutually reinforce and constrain each other.Poem lines are generated incrementally by taking into account the entire history of what has been generated so far rather than the limited horizon imposed by the previous line or lexical n-grams.Experimental results show that our model outperforms competitive Chinese poetry generation systems using both automatic and manual evaluation methods.

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Authors
Zhang, X., & Lapata, M.
Affiliations
University of Edinburgh (GB)
Venue
Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Published
2014
Pages
670-680
OpenAlex
W2115221470
Cited by
298
References
30
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FWCI
10.80
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
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cc-by
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  • Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Artificial Intelligence in Games
Keywords
recurrent neural networks, content selection, surface realization, character representation, long-range dependencies, poetic form

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