Humans have been honing the concise style of haiku poetry since the 17th century. Now it’s a computer’s turn.
Naoko Tosa of Kyoto University in Japan has written a program that takes two or three keywords entered by a user and creates a three-line poem related to them in the haiku’s structure of five, seven and five syllables per line.
To find related words, the software searches several databases, including a thesaurus, a database that links words that relate to the same season, and one that links onomatopoeic words. Using another database on how words are ordered, it strings word…
