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

13 Nov 2018  ·  John Benhardt, Peter Hase, Liuyi Zhu, Cynthia Rudin ·

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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