Generating Classical Chinese Poems via Conditional Variational Autoencoder and Adversarial Training

Juntao Li, Yan Song, Haisong Zhang, Dongmin Chen, Shuming Shi, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan


Abstract
It is a challenging task to automatically compose poems with not only fluent expressions but also aesthetic wording. Although much attention has been paid to this task and promising progress is made, there exist notable gaps between automatically generated ones with those created by humans, especially on the aspects of term novelty and thematic consistency. Towards filling the gap, in this paper, we propose a conditional variational autoencoder with adversarial training for classical Chinese poem generation, where the autoencoder part generates poems with novel terms and a discriminator is applied to adversarially learn their thematic consistency with their titles. Experimental results on a large poetry corpus confirm the validity and effectiveness of our model, where its automatic and human evaluation scores outperform existing models.
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D18-1423
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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October-November
Year:
2018
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Brussels, Belgium
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Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
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EMNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3890–3900
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https://aclanthology.org/D18-1423
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D18-1423
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Juntao Li, Yan Song, Haisong Zhang, Dongmin Chen, Shuming Shi, Dongyan Zhao, and Rui Yan. 2018. Generating Classical Chinese Poems via Conditional Variational Autoencoder and Adversarial Training. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 3890–3900, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Generating Classical Chinese Poems via Conditional Variational Autoencoder and Adversarial Training (Li et al., EMNLP 2018)
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