Computational Modelling of Poetry Generation

Poems are particular well-crafted formulations of certain messages that satisfy constraints on their form as well on their content. From an engineering point of view, the ability to optimize the combination of form and content is a very desireable feature to be able to model. The present paper reviews a number of efforts at modelling poetry generation computationally, and it brings together insights from these efforts into a computational model that allows integration of a number of AI technologies combined together according to control structures compatible with observed human behaviour. The relation of this computational model with existing cognitive models of the writing task, and with models of computational creativity is discussed.

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