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arXiv:2009.12240cs.CL

Weird AI Yankovic: Generating Parody Lyrics

Mark Riedl

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Abstract

Lyrics parody swaps one set of words that accompany a melody with a new set of words, preserving the number of syllables per line and the rhyme scheme. Lyrics parody generation is a challenge for controllable text generation. We show how a specialized sampling procedure, combined with backward text generation with XLNet can produce parody lyrics that reliably meet the syllable and rhyme scheme constraints.We introduce the Weird AI Yankovic system and provide a case study evaluation. We conclude with societal implications of neural lyric parody generation.

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9 pages, serious paper about a silly task, written accordingly
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cs.CLComputation and Language cs.AIArtificial Intelligence

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