https://github.com/swizec/le-thesis

For my undergrad thesis I am building an automatic poet. The idea is to implement an evolutionary algorithm that can construct a poem using fitness functions trained on a text-based corpora.
https://github.com/swizec/le-thesis

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For my undergrad thesis I am building an automatic poet. The idea is to implement an evolutionary algorithm that can construct a poem using fitness functions trained on a text-based corpora.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/swizec/le-thesis
• Owner: Swizec
• Created: 2012-01-04T23:00:32.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-09-20T21:53:59.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-08T15:42:12.861Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Haskell
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# Le Thesis

This is my graduation thesis, feel free to poke around and tell

me what an idiot I am.

It comes out of a project I slowly started working on a while ago: https://github.com/Swizec/Generative-poetry

Some recaps of general research in this field are on my blog:

* Towards a computational model of poetry generation: http://swizec.com/blog/science-wednesday-towards-a-computational-model-of-poetry-generation/swizec/3855

* Defining poetry: http://swizec.com/blog/science-wednesday-defining-poetry/swizec/4079

* Comparing automatic poetry generators: http://swizec.com/blog/comparing-automatic-poetry-generators/swizec/4207

* Natural Language Generation system architectures: http://swizec.com/blog/natural-language-generation-system-architectures/swizec/4535

# Le Goals

To implement a system that, given a corpora of poetry, can learn how

to write its own poetry on par so that a layman observer cannot

distinguish a generated poem from one written by a poet.

## Learning

Parameters to be learned:

* rhyming structure (phonetic match of last syllables in verse)

* assonance structure (vowel repetition for internal rhyming)

* alliteration structure (consonant repetition)

* rhythm

* verse structure

* stanza structure

Most of this basically requires a way to syllabify text, which I

believe can be achieved by finding a good substring cover of the

corpora with strings adhering to the C\*V+C\* pattern.

Semantically the system needs to

* sentence structure - supposedly well achievable with lexicalized

  probabilistic context free grammars

* semantic structure (at least for internal consistency)

* sentiment (emotional infliction of the poems)

## Generating

The above parameters of a poem should be constructed into some sort of

DNA from which poems can then be generated. It is important to achieve

* correct rhyming/assonance/alliteration or combination of these

* consistent use of rhythm

* appropriate division into verses and stanzas

* correct sentence structure

* internal semantic consistency

## Measuring success

It shouldn't be too difficult to measure correctness in terms of

proper rhyming etc. as long as we stick to strict poetic structures.

But this looks like an arduous manual process, so a better solution

needs to be found.