VV-Couplet: An open source Chinese couplet generation system

Chinese couplet is a special form of poetry involving a pair of lines that adhere to certain rules. This paper presents VV-Couplet, an open source automatic couplet generation system. This system is based on the attention-based sequence-to-sequence neural model that ‘translates’ the first line to the second line. Particularly, it relies on a local attention mechanism that learns the basic rules of couplet generation. Moreover, entity names such as person names and addresses are particularly treated. We open an online couplet generation service, and the entire source code and data for interested readers to reproduce our work.

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