WASP: Evaluation of Different Strategies for the Automatic Generation of Spanish Verse

摘要

WASP is a forward reasoning rule-based system that takes as input data a set of words and a set of verse patterns and returns a set of verses. Using a generate and test method, guided by a set of construction heuristics obtained from formal literature on Spanish poetry, the system can operate in two modes: either generating an unrestricted set of verses, or generating a poem according to one of three predefined structures (romance, cuarteto, or terceto). Five different construction heuristics are tested over different combinations of two sets of initial data, one obtained from a classic poem and one obtained from a paragraph of a doctoral thesis in linguistics. A set of numerical parameters are extracted from each test, and evaluated in search of significant correlations. The aim is to ascertain the relative importance of size of initial vocabulary, choice of words, choice of verse patterns and construction heuristics with respect to the general acceptability of the resulting verse.