New York Times haiku generator
Something interesting for Friday: The New York Times has developed an algorithm that automatically detects poetry hidden in the paper's front page articles. Using a syllable dictionary, a computer scans each article in search of haikus. Then human journalists select the most wonderful results and publish them daily at Times Haiku. Enjoy!
12 comments:
Basically these Haikus
are just 17-
syllable sentences?
Haikus confuse me.
Mum
thank you! it's my new favorite blog (present company excepted)
Mum, nice. But you gotta break the syllables into:
5
7
5
So:
Basically these Hai
kus are just seventeen syll
able sentences
But breaking words apart is illegal, of course.
And now you see why I'm confused.
(Don't tell anyone, but basically has 4 syllables. I cheated. Ha!)
Mum
LOL! I had also typed "and I hope everyone pronounces basically with just three syllables," but then I thought that was petty so I erased it. :)
Very cool. :)
Petty, indeed! But very funny. :)
Mum
this is amazing! now computers can even do poetry for us... humans are indeed becoming obsolete =D
also... how do you find this stuff? =P
super cool!
The commentary in the haiku about lizards all afternoon is more apropos for Florida than NYC...there again look who I'm being critical of - a machine thinking it can create 'real' poetry...What was 'real' again?
Thank you for sharing!
This made my day!!
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