This post is summarized from Chapter 3 of Ruli Manurung‘s An evolutionary algorithm approach to poetry generation from 2003 – it is essentially 10 years old research from a fast moving field of science. However, these are core principles and techniques; a casual perusal of wikipedia indicates they are still valid. If you know of something [...]

When you write, there’s usually something you want to say. Answer the good old 5W+H at least. Poetry is pretty exploratory though. When you start, you have barely a vague sense on what you’re trying to achieve. You’re conveying emotion rather than meaning. Form matters a lot as well. A lot of creative writing looks like that. [...]

Poetry is a literary form in which language is used in a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response. ~ Levin (1962) Poetry is simple to define –  a poem is a poem because people consider it a poem. Simple. Easy to understand. Useless. When you are studying poetry in a [...]

Towards A Computational Model of Poetry Generation is a paper by Manurung, Ritchie and Thompson (whomever they are) published in May 2000 and so far seems to be the best starting point for my graduation thesis. There are three main parts to this story: why!? what makes it hard how it used to be done [...]

A major part of my thesisinvolves finding an algorithm to discover a good substring cover of text in order to properly syllabify said text. But what is the substring cover problem anyway and what does it entail? The Minimum Substring Cover Problem paper from Hermelin, Rawitz, Rizzi and Vialette dating back to 2007 (judging by [...]