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Xichu Ma

3 accepted papers

2025

LivePoem: Improving the Learning Experience of Classical Chinese Poetry with AI-Generated Musical Storyboards

IJCAI 2025

Textbook reading has long dominated classical poetry education in Chinese-speaking communities. However, research has shown that extensive text-based learning can lead to learner disengagement and a less pleasant experience. This paper aims to improve the experience of classical Chinese poetry learn

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2024

XAI-Lyricist: Improving the Singability of AI-Generated Lyrics with Prosody Explanations

IJCAI 2024poster

Explaining the singability of lyrics is an important but missing ability of language models (LMs) in song lyrics generation. This ability allows songwriters to quickly assess if LM-generated lyrics can be sung harmoniously with melodies and helps singers align lyrics with melodies during practice. T…

2023

Songs Across Borders: Singable and Controllable Neural Lyric Translation

ACL 2023long

The development of general-domain neural machine translation (NMT) methods has advanced significantly in recent years, but the lack of naturalness and musical constraints in the outputs makes them unable to produce singable lyric translations. This paper bridges the singability quality gap by formal…