PoeLM: A Meter- and Rhyme-Controllable Language Model for Unsupervised Poetry Generation. (arXiv:2205.12206v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

Formal verse poetry imposes strict constraints on the meter and rhyme scheme
of poems. Most prior work on generating this type of poetry uses existing poems
for supervision, which are difficult to obtain for most languages and poetic
forms. In this work, we propose an unsupervised approach to generate poems
following any given meter and rhyme scheme, without requiring any poetic text
for training. Our method works by splitting a regular, non-poetic corpus into
phrases, prepending control codes that describe …

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