PhD Seminar: The Many Faces of Computer-generated Poetry

Speaker: Carolyn Lamb, PhD Candidate

Artists, hobbyists, cognitive scientists, and computer scientists are all trying their hands at writing computer programs that generate poetry. Why? What do these poems look like, and how are they made? What might meta-poetry writers on both sides of the art-science spectrum learn from each other?

 We survey the state of the art with colorful examples and explain why machine learning and knowledge representation techniques from computer science have the potential to solve artistic problems in computer-generated poetry.