Generating Topical Poetry

Authors: Marjan Ghazvininejad, Xing Shi, Yejin Choi, Kevin Knight

Abstract

We describe Hafez, a program that generates any number of distinct poems on a user-supplied topic. Poems obey rhythmic and rhyme constraints. We describe the poetry-generation algorithm, give experimental data concerning its parameters, and show its generality with respect to language and poetic form.