@inproceedings{xie-etal-2019-shakespeare,
title = "From Shakespeare to {L}i-{B}ai: Adapting a Sonnet Model to {C}hinese Poetry",
author = "Xie, Zhuohan and
Lau, Jey Han and
Cohn, Trevor",
editor = "Mistica, Meladel and
Piccardi, Massimo and
MacKinlay, Andrew",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association",
month = "4--6 " # dec,
year = "2019",
address = "Sydney, Australia",
publisher = "Australasian Language Technology Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/U19-1002",
pages = "10--18",
abstract = "In this paper, we adapt Deep-speare, a joint neural network model for English sonnets, to Chinese poetry. We illustrate characteristics of Chinese quatrain and explain our architecture as well as training and generation procedure, which differs from Shakespeare sonnets in several aspects. We analyse the generated poetry and find that model works well for Chinese poetry, as it can: (1) generate coherent 4-line quatrains of different topics; and (2) capture rhyme automatically (to a certain extent).",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T From Shakespeare to Li-Bai: Adapting a Sonnet Model to Chinese Poetry
%A Xie, Zhuohan
%A Lau, Jey Han
%A Cohn, Trevor
%Y Mistica, Meladel
%Y Piccardi, Massimo
%Y MacKinlay, Andrew
%S Proceedings of the 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association
%D 2019
%8 4–6 dec
%I Australasian Language Technology Association
%C Sydney, Australia
%F xie-etal-2019-shakespeare
%X In this paper, we adapt Deep-speare, a joint neural network model for English sonnets, to Chinese poetry. We illustrate characteristics of Chinese quatrain and explain our architecture as well as training and generation procedure, which differs from Shakespeare sonnets in several aspects. We analyse the generated poetry and find that model works well for Chinese poetry, as it can: (1) generate coherent 4-line quatrains of different topics; and (2) capture rhyme automatically (to a certain extent).
%U https://aclanthology.org/U19-1002
%P 10-18
Markdown (Informal)
[From Shakespeare to Li-Bai: Adapting a Sonnet Model to Chinese Poetry](https://aclanthology.org/U19-1002) (Xie et al., ALTA 2019)
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