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Poetry is one of the most interesting and complex natural language generation (NLG) systems because a text needs to simultaneously satisfy three properties to be considered a poem; namely grammaticality (grammatical structure and syntax), poeticness (poetic structure) and meaningfulness (semantic content). In this paper we show how the declarative approach enabled by the high-level constraint programming language Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) can be applied to satisfy the three properties while generating poems. The developed automatic poetry generation system generates a poem by incrementally selecting its words through a step-wise pruning of a customised lexicon according to the grammaticality, poeticness and meaningfulness constraints.
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El Bolock, A., Abdennadher, S. (2015). Satisfying Poetry Properties Using Constraint Handling Rules. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9042. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18117-2_25
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