Settles, CALC 2010
Citation
Computational Creativity Tools for Songwriters. Burr Settles. In Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity, 2010.
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Summary
This paper describes two natural language processing based computational creativity tools to assist songwriters, originally deployed to aid songwriters participating in FAWM, a social challenge website devoted to writing songs in short period of time. The two tools described are Titular, a text synthesis algorithm for generating new song titles, and LyriCloud, which is a word-level explorer that allow users interactively select words and receive suggestions for lyrical words.
Titular Available here: [1]
This tool makes use of a template-based approach to synthesis titles. As opposed to using hand-crafted templates, Titular learns using the following:
LyriCloud
Available here: [2]