Humans have been honing the concise style of haiku poetry since the 17th century. Now it鈥檚 a computer鈥檚 turn.
Naoko Tosa of Kyoto University in Japan has written a that takes two or three keywords entered by a user and creates a three-line poem related to them in the haiku鈥檚 structure of five, seven and five syllables per line.
To find related words, the software searches several databases, including a thesaurus, a database that links words that relate to the same season, and one that links onomatopoeic words. Using another database on how words are ordered, it strings word combinations together. The combination that is most relevant to the keywords and obeys the syllable rules forms the poem.
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The user can make changes to the haiku, which the program uses to learn the user鈥檚 preferences.
