Abstract
Musical parody, i.e. the act of changing the lyrics of an existing and very well-known song, is a commonly used technique for creating catchy advertising tunes and for mocking people or events. Here we describe a system for automatically producing a musical parody, starting from a corpus of songs. The system can automatically identify characterizing words and concepts related to a novel text, which are taken from the daily news. These concepts are then used as seeds to appropriately replace part of the original lyrics of a song, using metrical, rhyming and lexical constraints. Finally, the parody can be sung with a singing speech synthesizer, with no intervention from the user.- Anthology ID:
- E17-2048
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers
- Month:
- April
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Valencia, Spain
- Venue:
- EACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 298–304
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/E17-2048
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Lorenzo Gatti, Gözde Özbal, Oliviero Stock, and Carlo Strapparava. 2017. To Sing like a Mockingbird. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers, pages 298–304, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- To Sing like a Mockingbird (Gatti et al., EACL 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/E17-2048.pdf