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Markov text generator for basque poetry

Document: English. Library collection
Author(s)
Astigarraga Pagoaga, Aitzol ; Lazkano Ortega, Elena ; Martínez-Otzeta, José María ; Rodriguez Rodriguez, Igor ; Sierra, Basilio
Title
Markov text generator for basque poetry / Aitzol Astigarraga, José María Martínez-Otzeta, Igor Rodriguez, Basilio Sierra, Elena Lazkano
Publication
Cham Springer, 2017
Subjects
Bertsolaritza
Type of material
Document
Localization
XDZ - Xenpelar Dokumentazio Zentroa
Eduki mota
Jardunaldiak, biltzarrak
ISBN / ISSN
978-3-319-64205-5
Poetry generation is a challenging field in the area of natural language processing. A poem is a text structured according to predefined formal rules and whose parts are semantically related. In this work we present a novel automated system to generate poetry in Basque language conditioned by non-local constraints. From a given corpus two Markov chains representing forward and backward 2-grams are built. From these Markov chains and a semantic model, a system able to generate poems conforming a given metric and following semantic cues has been designed. The user is prompted to input a theme for the poem and also a seed word to start the generating process. The system produces several poems in less than a minute, enough for using it in live events.