Abstract Limerick generation exemplifies some of the most difficult challenges faced in poetry generation, as poems must tell a story only five lines, with constraints on rhyme, stress, and meter. To address these challenges, we introduce LimGen, novel fully automated system for limerick that outperforms state-of-the-art neural network-based models, well prior rule-based models. LimGen consists...

Based on oral history research conducted among networks of blue-collar workers in Belgrade, Serbia, this article develops three interrelated arguments regarding workers' appraisals of the recent past (1980-2014). Firstly, although the tumultuous years of late socialism and post-socialism in Serbia have been represented by scholars as a series of ruptures, I suggest that for blue-collar workers ...

Texts and dialogues often express information indirectly. For instance, speakers’ answers to yes/no questions do not always straightforwardly convey a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer. The intended reply is clear in some cases (Was it good? It was great!) but uncertain in others (Was it acceptable? It was unprecedented.). In this paper, we present methods for interpreting the answers to questions like thes...