I lead the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Lab, affiliated with the Waterloo.AI Institute. The research in my lab is mainly focused on natural language generation, computational creativity and designing systems for musicians and artists. The current and recent projects include controlled text generation, text style transfer and computational systems for composers, songwriters and music artists.
Here is a link to my ResearchGate page.
Twitter: @olga_vechtomova
News:
April 2023: LyricJam Sonic was presented at the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design. LyricJam Sonic creates evolving generative soundscapes in real-time to match the sounds it hears during the artist's live performance.
March 2023: LyricJam Sonic was featured in my live performance at the Festival of Synthesis and Electronic Music, Lowell, MA, 2023.
August 2021. Media: I was interviewed by the Canadian Musician Podcast. Listen at: https://www.canadianmusicianpodcast.com/episodes/where-songwriting-tech-meet.
June 2021. Media: A news article about LyricJam was published by TechXplore.
June 2021. We released LyricJam, a web app that generates real-time lyrics for live instrumental music.
June 2021. The paper "LyricJam: A system for generating lyrics for live instrumental music" was accepted at the 12th International Conference for Computational Creativity 2021.
October 2020. Our paper on lyrics generation from audio clips was accepted at NLP4MusA Workshop. You can watch video demos at https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-submission/home, and the pre-recorded talk on YouTube
July 2020. The video of my part of the ACL 2020 Stylized Text Generation Tutorial is available at https://vimeo.com/436479481
October 2019. The tutorial "Stylized Text Generation: Approaches and Applications" (with Lili Mou) was accepted at ACL 2020
July 2019. The paper "Novelty and Diversity In Information Retrieval Evaluation" received ACM SIGIR Test of Time Award.
May 2019. The paper "Disentangled Representation Learning for Non-Parallel Text Style Transfer" was accepted at ACL 2019.
March 2019. The paper "Stochastic Wasserstein Autoencoder for Probabilistic Sentence Generation" was accepted at NAACL-HLT 2019.
January 2019. Media: a news article about our lyrics generation research was published in TechXplore.
January 2019. Media: CBC aired a radio interview about my lyrics generation work.
November 2018. My collection of AI poetry was accepted as artwork at NeurIPS 2018 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design.
February 2018. I received Amazon Research Award for the project "Task-based latent semantic information retrieval".
August 2017. NVIDIA Corporation donated Titan Xp GPU to the NLP Lab in support of our research on Text Style Transfer.
