Generating Lyrics Using Constrained Random Walks on a Word Network

Abstract

In the paper we present an approach for automatic lyrics generation. From the American National Corpus of written texts we build a Word Network, which encodes wordsequences. Lyrics are then generated by performing a constrained random walk over the Word Network. The constraints include the structure of the generated sentence, the rhythm of the lines of the stanza or the rhymes of the stanza itself. Lyrics are generated using each constraint individually and also using all three constraints at the same time. We tested the single constraint strategies using a toy example, while the results of the joint strategy were subject to human review. While the given properties of the toy example, were kept in the results, replicating the toy example perfectly proved a difficult task. The results of the questionnaire showed that lack of a deeper meaning and strange capitalization were the main reasons that our results did not appear as though they were written by a human.

Author Biographies

Žiga Babnik, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceMSc student

Jasmina Pegan, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceMSc student

Domen Kos, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceMSc student

Lovro Šubelj, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceAssistant ProfessorNetwork Scientist

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Authors

  • Žiga Babnik University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science
  • Jasmina Pegan University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science
  • Domen Kos University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science
  • Lovro Šubelj University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31449/inf.v48i1.3366

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01/31/2024

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Babnik, Žiga, Pegan, J., Kos, D., & Šubelj, L. (2024). Generating Lyrics Using Constrained Random Walks on a Word Network. Informatica, 48(1). https://doi.org/10.31449/inf.v48i1.3366

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Vol. 48 No. 1 (2024)

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Student papers

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