Emotional and Multi-agent Systems in Computer-aided Writing and Poetry

MASTER (Multi-Agent System for Text Emotion Representation) is an artificial society in which each member has a digital emotional state. Member agents attempt to influence each other’s emotions by reciting “poems” to each other which express their own emotional state. As agents do this, larger texts are developed in the society through social learning. The resulting texts are not meaningful in the normal sense of everyday language the sound and word repetition generates meaning. Like normal English, there is actually a hierarchical structure to the repetition (i.e. repetitions within repetitions), and the words are often evocative and sometimes contrasting.