Pemuisi is a poetry generation system that generates topical poems in Indonesian using a constraint satisfaction approach. It scans popular news websites for articles and extracts relevant keywords that are combined with various language resources such as templates and other slot fillers into lines of poetry. It then composes poems from these lines by satisfying a set of given constraints. A Tu...

Computer poetry generation is our first step towards computer writing. Writing must have a theme. The current approaches of using sequence-to-sequence models with attention often produce nonthematic poems. We present a conditional variational autoencoder with augmented word2vec architecture that explicitly represents the topic or theme information. This approach significantly improves the relev...

Waka is a form of traditional Japanese poetry with a 1300year history. In this paper we attempt to semi-automatically discover instances of poetic allusion, or more generally, to find similar poems in anthologies of waka poems. The key to success is how to define the similarity measure on poems. We first examine the existing similarity measures on strings, and then give a unifying framework tha...

A 58 year old man presented with a three year history of impotence, night sweats and ankle swelling. On examination, the patient fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for POEMS syndrome, but was unusual in that he also had underlying Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia with IgM kappa paraproteinaemia. The patient was treated with intermittent chlorambucil and made a good recovery. POEMS syndrome has b...

Dear Editor, POEMS syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome caused by a plasma cell disorder that is clinically characterized by polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal plasmaproliferative disorder, and skin changes.1 Ischemic diseases of the coronary and lower limb arteries have often been reported in patients with POEMS syndrome.2,3 However, acute ischemic stroke is uncommo...

The authors report an examination of Limbu poets’ experiences using Facebook to share poems expecting promote their Indigenous language, literature, and culture, preserve identities. We employed online semi-structured interviews with participants observation walls gather qualitative data. discuss how the poets attempted language through Facebook. used inform value cultural values. poetic creati...

The article shows Adam Zagajewski’s relationship with Charles Taylor’s thought. author argues that the poet’s dialogue philosopher is not limited to quotations and direct references but also revealed at a deeper level. Based on essays interviews, concludes poet studied Sources of Self Ethics Authenticity, probably drew later works dealing condition religion in disenchanted world (“A Catholic Mo...

Poetry has become less and preferred by the students. been viewed as a boring subject. This is because process of learning teaching poetry considered routine activity. article seeks ways to make an interesting subject learn examining existing syllabus proposing more interactive syllabus. Ethnography was used in this study gather information. Lecturers students will have work together collaborat...