PoeTryMe: a versatile platform for poetry generation

Abstract

PoeTryMe is a platform for the automatic generation of poetry. It has a versatile architecture that provides a high level of customisation. The user can define features that go from the poem configuration and the sentence templates, to the initial seed words and generation strategy. A prototype was implemented based on PoeTryMe to generate Portuguese poetry, using natural language pro- cessing resources for this language, and patterns that denote semantic relations in human-created poetry. The possible results are illustrated by three generated poems.