{"title":"Tra-la-Lyrics 2.0: Automatic Generation of Song Lyrics on a Semantic Domain","authors":"Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira","doi":"10.1515/jagi-2015-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jagi-2015-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Tra-la-Lyrics is a system that generates song lyrics automatically. In its original version, the main focus was to produce text where stresses matched the rhythm of given melodies. There were no concerns on whether the text made sense or if the selected words shared some kind of semantic association. In this article, we describe the development of a new version of Tra-la-Lyrics, where text is generated on a semantic domain, defined by one or more seed words. This effort involved the integration of the original rhythm module of Tra-la-Lyrics in PoeTryMe, a generic platform that generates poetry with semantically coherent sentences. To measure our progress, the rhythm, the rhymes, and the semantic coherence in lyrics produced by the original Tra-la-Lyrics were analysed and compared with lyrics produced by the new instantiation of this system, dubbed Tra-la-Lyrics 2.0. The analysis showed that, in the lyrics by the new system, words have higher semantic association among them and with the given seeds, while the rhythm is still matched and rhymes are present. The previous analysis was complemented with a crowdsourced evaluation, where contributors answered a survey about relevant features of lyrics produced by the previous and the current versions of Tra-la-Lyrics. Though tight, the survey results confirmed the improvements of the lyrics by Tra-la-Lyrics 2.0.","PeriodicalId":188693,"journal":{"name":"J. Artif. Gen. Intell.","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127498997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a constructivist methodology: learning constructions by integrating in situ representations and productivity","authors":"F. Velde","doi":"10.2478/v10229-011-0019-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/v10229-011-0019-z","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to learn constructions may be important for the development of a self-organizing architecture for artificial general intelligence. Constructions are structural relations between more specific or more abstract conceptual representations. They can be derived from the processes of alignment, collocations and distributed equivalences. An architecture that integrates in situ grounded representations with cognitive productivity is ideally suited to learn constructions. This paper described such an architecture, based on neuronal assembly structures and neuronal ’blackboards’ for grounded compositional representations. The paper outlines how constructions could be learned in such an architecture and how the architecture could eventually develop into an autonomous self-organizing architecture for artificial general intelligence.","PeriodicalId":188693,"journal":{"name":"J. Artif. Gen. Intell.","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128118686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}