Generating Classical Chinese Poems from Vernacular Chinese (D19-1)

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Challenge: Existing models for classical Chinese poetry generation only allow users to use keywords to interfere with the meaning of generated poems.
Approach: They propose a model to generate classical Chinese poems from vernacular . their model uses unsupervised machine translation to generate Chinese poems . human evaluation shows it can generate high-quality poems comparable to amateur poems - authors .
Outcome: The proposed model improves the perplexity and BLEU of the proposed model compared with typical models and human evaluation shows it generates high-quality poems comparable to amateur poems.

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