A Melody-Conditioned Lyrics Language Model
Kento Watanabe, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Satoru Fukayama, Masataka Goto, Kentaro Inui, Tomoyasu Nakano
Abstract
This paper presents a novel, data-driven language model that produces entire lyrics for a given input melody. Previously proposed models for lyrics generation suffer from the inability of capturing the relationship between lyrics and melody partly due to the unavailability of lyrics-melody aligned data. In this study, we first propose a new practical method for creating a large collection of lyrics-melody aligned data and then create a collection of 1,000 lyrics-melody pairs augmented with precise syllable-note alignments and word/sentence/paragraph boundaries. We then provide a quantitative analysis of the correlation between word/sentence/paragraph boundaries in lyrics and melodies. We then propose an RNN-based lyrics language model conditioned on a featurized melody. Experimental results show that the proposed model generates fluent lyrics while maintaining the compatibility between boundaries of lyrics and melody structures.- Anthology ID:
- N18-1015
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 163–172
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/N18-1015
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/N18-1015
- Cite (ACL):
- Kento Watanabe, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Satoru Fukayama, Masataka Goto, Kentaro Inui, and Tomoyasu Nakano. 2018. A Melody-Conditioned Lyrics Language Model. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), pages 163–172, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Melody-Conditioned Lyrics Language Model (Watanabe et al., NAACL 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nodalida-main-page/N18-1015.pdf
- Code
- KentoW/melody-lyrics
- Data
- RWC