Google Research: Poetic Machine Translation

Another step towards Trurl's electronic bard!

If you'd like to see some unrelated but available and open-source code to generate rhyming metric verse: http://github.com/darius/languagetoys. Unlike the paper, this doesn't even try to preserve sense -- it just uses n-gram statistics.

The person who reviewed their paper did so in verse: http://research.google.com/archive/papers/review_in_verse.ht... .

This gives me the bad feeling of when SIGGRAPH used to have papers on "artistic" filters (instant impressionism! instant woodcut!) by people without a feel for the expressiveness of the medium which they are simulating. Such work sometimes seems like subtle satire.

OTOH, I don't want to give the good Googlers short shrift, and it is certainly welcome to consider the meter (and maybe rhyme) of generated text.

This is awesome, but no demo webapp.

a research paper sublime

machine translation!

autumn rhymes abound