Youling: an AI-assisted Lyrics Creation System

Rongsheng Zhang, Xiaoxi Mao, Le Li, Lin Jiang, Lin Chen, Zhiwei Hu, Yadong Xi, Changjie Fan, Minlie Huang


Abstract
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 process with human intelligence centered. AI should play a role as an assistant in the lyrics creation process, where human interactions are crucial for high-quality creation. This paper demonstrates Youling, an AI-assisted lyrics creation system, designed to collaborate with music creators. In the lyrics generation process, Youling supports traditional one pass full-text generation mode as well as an interactive generation mode, which allows users to select the satisfactory sentences from generated candidates conditioned on preceding context. The system also provides a revision module which enables users to revise undesired sentences or words of lyrics repeatedly. Besides, Youling allows users to use multifaceted attributes to control the content and format of generated lyrics. The demo video of the system is available at https://youtu.be/DFeNpHk0pm4.
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2020.emnlp-demos.12
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Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
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October
Year:
2020
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Online
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Qun Liu, David Schlangen
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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85–91
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-demos.12
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-demos.12
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Rongsheng Zhang, Xiaoxi Mao, Le Li, Lin Jiang, Lin Chen, Zhiwei Hu, Yadong Xi, Changjie Fan, and Minlie Huang. 2020. Youling: an AI-assisted Lyrics Creation System. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, pages 85–91, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Youling: an AI-assisted Lyrics Creation System (Zhang et al., EMNLP 2020)
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