{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/chinese-poetry-generation-with-a-working","title":"Chinese Poetry Generation with a Working Memory Model","arxiv_id":"1809.04306","date":"2018-09-12","proceeding":null,"authors":["Xiaoyuan Yi","Maosong Sun","Ruoyu Li","Zonghan Yang"],"abstract":"As an exquisite and concise literary form, poetry is a gem of human culture.\nAutomatic poetry generation is an essential step towards computer creativity.\nIn recent years, several neural models have been designed for this task.\nHowever, among lines of a whole poem, the coherence in meaning and topics still\nremains a big challenge. In this paper, inspired by the theoretical concept in\ncognitive psychology, we propose a novel Working Memory model for poetry\ngeneration. Different from previous methods, our model explicitly maintains\ntopics and informative limited history in a neural memory. During the\ngeneration process, our model reads the most relevant parts from memory slots\nto generate the current line. After each line is generated, it writes the most\nsalient parts of the previous line into memory slots. By dynamic manipulation\nof the memory, our model keeps a coherent information flow and learns to\nexpress each topic flexibly and naturally. We experiment on three different\ngenres of Chinese poetry: quatrain, iambic and chinoiserie lyric. Both\nautomatic and human evaluation results show that our model outperforms current\nstate-of-the-art methods.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04306v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.04306v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"chinese-poetry-generation-with-a-working","repo_url":"https://github.com/xiaoyuanYi/WMPoetry","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"tf","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"culture","task_name":"Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction"},{"task_slug":"model","task_name":"model"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1809.04306","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}