Computational Creativity Tools for Songwriters
Burr Settles · 2010
This paper describes two natural language processing systems designed to assist songwriters in obtaining and developing ideas for their craft. Titular is a text synthesis algorithm for automatically generating novel song titles, which lyricists can use to back-form concepts and narrative story arcs. LyriCloud is a word-level language “browser ” or “explorer,” which allows users to interactively select words and receive lyrical suggestions in return. Two criteria for creativity tools are also presented along with examples of how they guided the development of these systems, which were used by musicians during an international songwriting contest. 1