The purpose of this paper is twofold: to show the practical applications of theoretical evaluation measures designed to capture the degree of creativity of a program, and to use the results to evaluate an effort to develop an automatic Spanish poet. Existing efforts for the development of automatic poets are described, and the implications of their particular architectures to the evaluation iss...

To us, who have lived our entire lives in a culture saturated with print, it seems obvious that the survival of a verbal artifact for any length of time would be impossible without material texts. To a writer, getting published is the necessary first step toward a potentially limitless Nachleben. The fact that, ceteris paribus, a new book is more likely to be pulped within a few years than to s...

Y. H. BRENNER (1881-1921) has long been associated with the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His early letters express fascination with Russian novelists, poets, and critics (Brenner, 1967, pp. 218-226), and the figures of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky appear many times in both his fiction and non-fiction writing. Brenner's admiration for the depth of Dostoyevsky's psychological portr...

In this paper, we investigate whether textual analysis can yield evidence of shared vocabulary or formal textual characteristics in the works of 19th century poets Lord Byron and Thomas Moore in the genre of Romantic Orientalism. In particular, we identify and trace Byron’s influence on Moore’s writings to query whether Moore imitated Byron, as many reviewers of the time suggested. We use a Dis...