Poetry Mix-up

Interacting by reciting or writing poetry has been a very spirited practice from the ancient times. People of different cultural traditions appreciated poetry as both a literary source, a direct and indirect communication. From royalty to plebeians, from great scholars to philistines, conversed, appreciated and indulge in being entertained by poetry. Contrastingly, the digital age is finding more familiar grounds with modern communication methods such as instant messaging, short messaging, blogging, twitter and similar applications expressing themselves in the form of short bits of information, which we can term as a new form of literature. Consequently, a new type of communication system is in need to facilitate their interactive digital culture. By introducing fine aesthetics of traditional poetry and merging with the modern technologies, a new movement of poetic literature can be established. From both short bits of literature and digital communication, we can invent a new form of literary expression, 'bit literature' and introduce digital poetry as a new form of communication. With this incorporation, we have developed a poetry mixer called Poetry Mix-up to transform existing form of short messaging communication to a deep cultural communication experience in poetry.

Poetry Mix-up generates a new poem by mixing several existing poems according to the input short message and display the poem in an attractive manner. Mixing or mash-up using poetry is the major element of this system which transforms the users into experiencing the state of being a poet. Mixing allows creation of unique and personal art work on top of bit literature and a distinctive poetry mixer can be created sans any prior experience or practice. In the procedure of poetry generation after receiving the message, as the first segment, Poetry Mix-up system fetches synonyms from the digital dictionary for the words whose term frequencies are highest in the input text. The poem lines containing these selected words as well as with highest term frequency are further short listed by the system. Furthermore, "Word Sense Disambiguation" is used to understand the user queries and the poem estimate the meaning and object of the poem. "Support Vector Machine" is also used to classify the short message and poem lines in terms of their super-senses so that closer matches can be found. The poem lines that minimize emotional weight difference and maximize the term frequency selected will be included in the final poetry.

Poetry Mix-up system provides a new cultural experience which promotes self-expression and social communication. This research can further revitalize the enthusiasm for traditional cultures and promote social interaction by introducing other artistic forms, like painting, music, and calligraphy.

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Science & Technology

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• Poetry
• Mixup