There Once Was a Really Bad Poet, It Was Automated but You Didn't Know It

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03775v1
• Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 16:03:55 GMT
• Title: There Once Was a Really Bad Poet, It Was Automated but You Didn't Know It
• Authors: Jianyou Wang, Xiaoxuan Zhang, Yuren Zhou, Christopher Suh, Cynthia Rudin
• Abstract summary: We introduce LimGen, a novel and fully automated system for limerick generation. LimGen outperforms state-of-the-art neural network-based poetry models. The resulting limericks satisfy poetic constraints and have thematically coherent storylines.
• Score: 31.951441780084345
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Limerick generation exemplifies some of the most difficult challenges faced in poetry generation, as the poems must tell a story in only five lines, with constraints on rhyme, stress, and meter. To address these challenges, we introduce LimGen, a novel and fully automated system for limerick generation that outperforms state-of-the-art neural network-based poetry models, as well as prior rule-based poetry models. LimGen consists of three important pieces: the Adaptive Multi-Templated Constraint algorithm that constrains our search to the space of realistic poems, the Multi-Templated Beam Search algorithm which searches efficiently through the space, and the probabilistic Storyline algorithm that provides coherent storylines related to a user-provided prompt word. The resulting limericks satisfy poetic constraints and have thematically coherent storylines, which are sometimes even funny (when we are lucky).

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