Book Review: discourse.cpp by O.S. le Si
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چکیده
discourse.cpp is a short collection of computer-generated poetry edited by computational linguist Aurélie Herbelot. The poetry was produced by a program, named O.S. le Si, that was derived from Herbelot’s research on context-based ontology extraction from text (Herbelot and Copestake 2006; Herbelot 2009). In this case, Herbelot provided 200,000 pages fromWikipedia for the program to parse and output lists of items whose context is similar to words such as gender, love, family, and illness. For example, Herbelot explains that content in the opening piece titled “The Creation” was “selected out of a list of 10,000 entries. Each entry was produced by automatically looking for taxonomic relationships in Wikipedia”; and, for the piece titled “Gender,” she chose the “twentyfive best contexts for man and woman in original order. No further changes” (page 47). The collection is, then, as we are told on the back cover, “about things that people say about things. It was written by a computer.”
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