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Shall I Compare Thee to a Machine-Written Sonnet? An Approach to Algorithmic Sonnet Generation

Artificial Intelligence 2019-09-12 v2 Computation and Language

Abstract

We provide an approach for generating beautiful poetry. Our sonnet-generation algorithm includes several novel elements that improve over the state of the art, leading to metrical, rhyming poetry with many human-like qualities. These novel elements include in-line punctuation, part of speech restrictions, and more appropriate training corpora. Our work is the winner of the 2018 PoetiX Literary Turing Test Award for computer-generated poetry.

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@article{arxiv.1811.05067,
  title  = {Shall I Compare Thee to a Machine-Written Sonnet? An Approach to Algorithmic Sonnet Generation},
  author = {John Benhardt and Peter Hase and Liuyi Zhu and Cynthia Rudin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.05067},
  year   = {2019}
}

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