Rhetorically Controlled Encoder-Decoder for Modern Chinese Poetry Generation

Zhiqiang Liu, Zuohui Fu, Jie Cao, Gerard de Melo, Yik-Cheung Tam, Cheng Niu, Jie Zhou


Abstract
Rhetoric is a vital element in modern poetry, and plays an essential role in improving its aesthetics. However, to date, it has not been considered in research on automatic poetry generation. In this paper, we propose a rhetorically controlled encoder-decoder for modern Chinese poetry generation. Our model relies on a continuous latent variable as a rhetoric controller to capture various rhetorical patterns in an encoder, and then incorporates rhetoric-based mixtures while generating modern Chinese poetry. For metaphor and personification, an automated evaluation shows that our model outperforms state-of-the-art baselines by a substantial margin, while human evaluation shows that our model generates better poems than baseline methods in terms of fluency, coherence, meaningfulness, and rhetorical aesthetics.
Anthology ID:
P19-1192
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
Venue:
ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1992–2001
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1192
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1192
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Cite (ACL):
Zhiqiang Liu, Zuohui Fu, Jie Cao, Gerard de Melo, Yik-Cheung Tam, Cheng Niu, and Jie Zhou. 2019. Rhetorically Controlled Encoder-Decoder for Modern Chinese Poetry Generation. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1992–2001, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Rhetorically Controlled Encoder-Decoder for Modern Chinese Poetry Generation (Liu et al., ACL 2019)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1192.pdf
Code
 Lucien-qiang/Rhetoric-Generator