Talk:Poetry generator

From dandi08

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Is anybody interested in working on this? I actually have somewhat of a poetry generator already constructed in python. Refining it to use NLTK's wordnet interaction would definitely be awesome, since it currently throws semantics out the window when it generates its poetry. --Galaar28

I'm considering this project and others. Even if I don't join this project, I don't understand how you're going to program the language in iambic pentameter if you choose the sonnet form. Have you considered villanelle or pantoum, which rely on repeated lines rather than meter? I know you could make the sonnet more formalist rather than formal, but still it seems like the two other forms would work better in the format you're considering.

Also, Haiku is about meaning and not about the 5,7,5. It would be a huge undertaking to program for a poem with such a semantic base. I wonder if you've considered Renga, Renku, Tanka, or Choca, which are more syllable based Japanese forms. --Rivcar18

To implement meter, there are phonetic corpora available. I actually was able to program, quite easily, a non-sense limerick generator, whose poems conform to 001001001 meter. As for semantics in general, I would think that that will be the most difficult to implement; so, I don't have an immediate solution. Finally, I'm pretty sure it would be easy to create a "general case" poem structure. In fact, that's sorta what Galaar28 above did. Ruoian27 09:50, 24 October 2008 (PDT)