PoeTryMe was created as a generic system for the generation of poetry that takes into account both semantics, in the form of triplets of relations between concepts, and textual structure, in the form of a grammar of templates extracted from existing poems. It was originally instantiated to generate poetry in Portuguese. The present paper describes an effort to create a different instantiation o...

Wallace Stevens is one of the most perplexing of the major modern poets. His poetry, as even his most ardent admirers agree, is very difficult to follow, and his personal life cuts against the grain of commonplace beliefs about the lives of modern poets. Stevens was neither a bohemian, nor a drunk, nor a professor. In fact he was a successful insurance lawyer in Connecticut, and became a vice p...

Through analysed the breathing physiological characteristics of poetry, we studied human speech breathing patterns during reading. In this paper, we mainly researched the poetry respiratory signal of Tibetan sixcharacter poem and Chinese metrical poem during reading from the perspective of the physiological. Main contents include: 1) Selected 40 representative Tibetan six-character poem s from"...

We propose a method for automatic poetry composition with a given document as inspiration. The poems generated are not limited to the topic of the document. They expand the topic or even put it in a new light. This capability is enabled by first detecting significant word associations that are unique to the document and then using them as the key lexicon for poetry composition.

Poetry composition is a very complex task that requires a poet to satisfy multiple constraints concurrently. We believe that the task can be augmented by combining the creative abilities of humans with computational algorithms that efficiently constrain and permute available choices. We present a hybrid method for generating poetry from prose that combines crowdsourcing with natural language pr...

The core intention of the pattern is to enrich the learner‘s perspectives by giving and receiving feedback through peer-review.

The paper defines the notion of “pedagogical stance”, viewed as the type of position taken, the role assumed, the image projected and the types of social behaviours performed by a teacher in her teaching interaction with a pupil. Two aspects of pedagogical stance, “didactic” and “affective – relational”, are distinguished and a hypothesis is put forward about their determinant factors (the teac...

The present paper organizes around the concept of didactic competence analyzed from the perspective of educational implementation of the new ICT tools. It presents the results of a large research regarding the development of certain general and specific didactic competencies, having as a support the virtual environment offered by the new technologies. Thus, the implications of the educational u...