Paper List

Contributed by Xiaoyuan Yi.

This repository provides a paper list for the interdisciplinary field of AI and poetry, including automatic poetry generation, analysis, translation, etc.

Our list is incomplete. We will keep adding papers and improving it. Any suggestions are welcome!

Chinese Classical Poetry Generation

• Piji Li and Haisong Zhang and Xiaojiang Liu and Shuming Shi. 2020. Rigid Formats Controlled Text Generation. In Proceedings of ACL 2020.
• Xiaoyuan Yi, Ruoyu Li, Cheng Yang, Wenhao Li and Maosong Sun. 2020. MixPoet: Diverse Poetry Generation via Learning Controllable Mixed Latent Space. In Proceedings of AAAI 2020.   [code]
• Liming Deng, Jie Wang, Hangming Liang, Hui Chen, Zhiqiang Xie, Bojin Zhuang, Shaojun Wang and Jing Xiao. 2020. An Iterative Polishing Framework based on Quality Aware Masked LanguageModel for Chinese Poetry Generation. In Proceedings of AAAI 2020.
• Huimin Chen, Xiaoyuan Yi, Maosong Sun, Wenhao Li, Cheng Yang and Zhipeng Guo. 2019. Sentiment-Controllable Chinese Poetry Generation. In Proceedings of IJCAI 2019.
• Jiannan Liang, Maosong Sun, Xiaoyuan Yi, Cheng Yang, Huimin Chen and Zhenghao Liu. 2019. Neural Network-Based Jiju Poetry Generation. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 33(3):126–135. (In Chinese)
• Cheng Yang, Maosong Sun, Xiaoyuan Yi, and Wenhao Li. 2018. Stylistic Chinese Poetry Generation via Unsupervised Style Disentanglement. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2018.   [code]
• 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 EMNLP 2018.
• Xiaoyuan Yi, Maosong Sun, Ruoyu Li, and Wenhao Li. 2018. Automatic Poetry Generation with Mutual Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2018.
• Xiaoyuan Yi, Ruoyu Li and Maosong Sun. 2018. Chinese Poetry Generation with a Salient-Clue Mechanism. In Proceedings of CoNLL 2018.
• Xiaopeng Yang, Xiaowen Lin, Shunda Suo and Ming Li. 2018. Generating Thematic Chinese Poetry using Conditional Variational Autoencoders with Hybrid Decoders. In Proceedings of IJCAI 2018.
• Xiaoyuan Yi, Maosong Sun, Ruoyu Li and Zonghan Yang. 2018. Chinese Poetry Generation with a Working Memory Model. In Proceedings of IJCAI 2018.   [code]
• Xiaoyuan Yi, Ruoyu Li, and Maosong Sun. 2017. Generating Chinese Classical Poems with RNN Encoder-Decoder. In Proceedings of CCL 2017.
• Jiyuan Zhang, Yang Feng, Dong Wang, Yang Wang, Andrew Abel, Shiyue Zhang, and Andi Zhang. 2017. Flexible and Creative Chinese Poetry Generation Using Neural Memory. In Proceedings of ACL 2017.
• Zhe Wang, Wei He, Hua Wu, Haiyang Wu, Wei Li, Haifeng Wang, and Enhong Chen. 2016. Chinese Poetry Generation with Planning Based Neural Network. In Proceedings of COLING 2016.
• Rui Yan. 2016. I,Poet:Automatic Poetry Composition through Recurrent Neural Networks with Iterative Polishing Schema. In Proceedings of IJCAI 2016.
• Qixin Wang, Tianyi Luo, Dong Wang, and Chao Xing. 2016. Chinese Song Iambics Generation with Neural Attention-Based Model. In Proceedings of IJCAI 2016.
• Ruiying Jiang, Lei Cui, Jing He, Ming Zhou and Zhigeng Pan. 2015. Topic Model and Statistical Machine Translation Based Computer Assisted Poetry Generation. Chinese Journal of Computers, 38(12):2426-2436. (In Chinese)
• Xingxing Zhang and Mirella Lapata. 2014. Chinese Poetry Generation with Recurrent Neural Networks. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2014.
• Rui Yan, Han Jiang, Mirella Lapata, Shou-De Lin, Xueqiang Lv, and Xiaoming Li. 2013. I,Poet:Automatic Chinese Poetry Composition through a Generative Summarization Framework under Constrained Optimization. In Proceedings of IJCAI 2013.
• Jing He, Ming Zhou, and Long Jiang. 2012. Generating Chinese Classical Poems with Statistical Machine Translation Models. In Proceedings of AAAI 2012.
• Changle Zhou, Wei You and Xiaojun Ding. 2010. Genetic Algorithm and Its Implementation of Automatic Generation of Chinese SONGCI. Journal of Software, 21(3):427-437. (In Chinese)

Chinese Couplet Generation

• Rui Yan, Cheng-Te Li, Xiaohua Hu and Ming Zhang. 2016. Chinese Couplet Generation with Neural Network Structures. In Proceedings of ACL 2016.
• Long Jiang and Ming Zhou. 2008. Generating Chinese Couplets Using A Statistical Machine Translation Approach. In Proceedings of COLING 2008.

Modern Chinese Poetry Generation

• 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 ACL 2019.   [code]

Poetry Generation for Other Languages

• Agarwal and Kann. 2020. Acrostic Poem Generation. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2020.
• Tim Van de Cruys. 2020. Automatic Poetry Generation from Prosaic Text. In Proceedings of ACL 2020.
• Piji Li and Haisong Zhang and Xiaojiang Liu and Shuming Shi. 2020. Rigid Formats Controlled Text Generation. In Proceedings of ACL 2020.
• Mika Hamalainen and Khalid Alnajjar. Generating Modern Poetry Automatically in Finnish. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2019.
• John Benhart, Tianlin Duan, Peter Hase, Liuyi Zhu and Cynthia Rudin. 2018. Shall I Compare Thee to a Machine-Written Sonnet? An Approach to Algorithmic Sonnet Generation. arXiv 2018.
• Jack Hopkins and Douwe Kiela. 2017. Automatically Generating Rhythmic Verse with Neural Networks. In Proceedings of ACL 2017.
• Marjan Ghazvininejad, Xing Shi, Yejin Choi and Kevin Knight. 2016. Generating Topical Poetry. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2016.
• Berty Chrismartin Lumban Tobing and Ruli Manurung. 2015. A Chart Generation System for Topical Metrical Poetry. In Proceedings of ICCC 2015.
• Joanna Misztal and Bipin Indurkhya. 2014. Poetry Generation System with an Emotional Personality. In Proceedings of ICCC 2014.
• Amitava Das and Björn Gambäck. 2014. Poetic Machine: Computational Creativity for Automatic Poetry Generation in Bengali. In Proceedings of ICCC 2014.
• Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Raquel Hervás, Alberto Díaz and Pablo Gervás. 2014. Adapting a Generic Platform for Poetry Generation to Produce Spanish Poems. In Proceedings of ICCC 2014.
• Tony Veale. 2013. Less Rhyme, More Reason:Knowledge-based Poetry Generation with Feeling, Insight and Wit. In Proceedings of ICCC 2013.
• Simon Colton, Jacob Goodwin and Tony Veale. 2012. Full-FACE Poetry Generation. In Proceedings of ICCC 2012.
• Xiaofeng Wu, Naoko Tosa and Ryohei Nakatsu. 2009. New Hitch Haiku: An Interactive Haiku Poem Composition Supporting Tool Applied for Sightseeing Navigation System. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Entertainment Computing.
• Yael Netzer, David Gabay, Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad. 2009. Gaiku: Generating Haiku with Word Associations Norms. In Proceedings of the NAACL HLT Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity.

Multimodal Poetry Generation

• Bei Liu, Jianlong Fu, Makoto P. Kato and Masatoshi Yoshikawa. 2018. Beyond Narrative Deion: Generating Poetry from Images by Multi-Adversarial Training. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Multimedia Conference.
• Wen-Feng Cheng, Chao-Chung Wu, Ruihua Song, Jianlong Fu, Xing Xie and Jian-Yun Nie. 2018. Image Inspired Poetry Generation in Xiaoice. arXiv 2018.
• Dayiheng Liu, Quan Guo, Wubo Li and Jiancheng Lv. 2018. A Multi-Modal Chinese Poetry Generation Model. In Proceedings of IJCNN 2018.
• Li Liu, Xiaojun Wan and Zongming Guo. 2020. Images2poem: Generating chinese poetry from image streams. In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2018.
• Linli Xu, Liang Jiang, Chuan Qin, Zhe Wang and Dongfang Du. How Images Inspire Poems: Generating Classical Chinese Poetry from Images with Memory Networks. In Proceedings of AAAI 2018.

Poetry Analysis

• Jiannan Liang, Maosong Sun and Xiaoyuan Yi. 2019. Neural Network-Based Poetry Retrieval. In Proceedings of CCL 2019. (In Chinese)
• Manex Agirrezabal, Inaki Alegria and Mans Hulden. 2016. Machine Learning for Metrical Analysis of English Poetry. In Proceedings of COLING 2016.
• Erica Greene, Tugba Bodrumlu and Kevin Knight. 2010. Automatic Analysis of Rhythmic Poetrywith Applications to Generation and Translation. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2010.

Poetry Translation

• Zhichao Yang, Pengshan Cai, Yansong Feng, Fei Li, Weijiang Feng, Elena Suet-Ying Chiu and Hong Yu. Generating Classical Chinese Poems from Vernacular Chinese. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2019.   [code]
• Marjan Ghazvininejad, Yejin Choi, and Kevin Knight. 2018. Neural Poetry Translation. In Proceedings of NAACL 2018.
• Dmitriy Genzel, Jakob Uszkoreit and Franz Och. "Poetic" Statistical Machine Translation: Rhyme and Meter. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2010.

Demo

• Jinyi Hu and Maosong Sun. 2020. Generating Major Types of Chinese Classical Poetry in a Uniformed Framework. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2020.
• Zhipeng Guo, Xiaoyuan Yi, Maosong Sun, Wenhao Li, Cheng Yang, Jiannan Liang, Huimin Chen, Yuhui Zhang and Ruoyu Li. 2019. Jiuge: A Human-Machine Collaborative Chinese Classical Poetry Generation System. In Proceedings of ACL 2019.
• Marjan Ghazvininejad, Xing Shi, Jay Priyadarshi and Kevin Knight. 2017. Hafez: An Interactive Poetry Generation System. In Proceedings of ACL 2017.
• Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira. 2012. PoeTryMe: a Versatile Platform for Poetry Generation. In Proceedings of the Workshop Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence.

Survey

• Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira. 2017. A Survey on Intelligent Poetry Generation:Languages, Features, Techniques, Reutilisation and Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation.
• Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira. 2009. Automatic Generation of Poetry: An Overview.