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The generation of formal poetry involves both complex creativity - usually exercised by a human poet - and strict algorithmic restrictions regarding the metrical structure of the poem - determined by literary tradition. Starting from a generating system that enforces automatically the metrical restrictions, this paper presents a model for the literary style of a user based on four key features for user preferences - word selection, language structures, poem planning, and restrictions on realisation - governing the generation of poetry from input data provided by the user - a prose paraphrase of the intended message, a task specific vocabulary, and a corpus of construction patterns. The system exploits the CBR paradigm as a means to evolve a case base (a vocabulary / construction pattern grouping) that effectively models the style of a specific user as a result of multiple iterations through the CBR cycle.
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Gervás, P. (2001). Modeling Literary Style for Semi-automatic Generation of Poetry. In: Bauer, M., Gmytrasiewicz, P.J., Vassileva, J. (eds) User Modeling 2001. UM 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2109. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44566-8_30
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