Bruce Thacker never took an art class. He never even took a computer class. His degree is in geology, and he fi rst bought a computer in 1990 to track stock investments. Somewhere in the convoluted melange of his linear history, he owned a contemporary art gallery, invested in stocks and real estate, owned a custom photo lab, and was a professional photographer. “Other things that I’ve never ha...

plicitly, by an equally nebulous third term: sense. The relation is ambiguous, and shift-­ ing, because sound—especially in the context of poetry—is of that species of homographs which produce their own antonyms.4 On the one hand, sound—defined as “the au-­ dible articulation(s) corresponding to a let-­ ter or word” (def. 4b)—has been understood as distinct from linguistic meaning: “the sound m...

This paper is about the automatic generation of creative text, more precisely the automatic generation of poetry. It starts by presenting two possible categorisations for systems that aim generating poetry and then makes a brief overview on the existing attempts to this subject based on what can be found in the literature.

For α, β, n ordinals α → (β, n) means that any graph on the ordinal α either contains an independent set of order-type β or a complete subgraph of order-type n. We only consider cases where n is a natural number, hence the naming. The partition relation α → (β, n) for α, β finite multiples of κ where κ = ω or κ is weakly compact is characterized by a finitary problem as is the same for α, β fin...

Our software system simulates the classical collaborative Japanese poetry form, renga, made of linked haikus. We used NLP methods wrapped up as web services. This approach is suitable for collaborative human-AI generation, as well as purely computer-generated poetry. Evaluation included a blind survey comparing AI and human haiku. To gather ideas for future work, we examine related research in ...

The concept that doing something to “vent” aggression as a method of reducing aggressive feelings and behaviors, such as watching media violence or playing violent video games, continues to enjoy widespread public support despite a lack of empirical support. This article describes the historical origins of the concept and examines how well these conceptions fit with the modern usage of the aggr...