Poetry from Concept Maps-Yet Another Adaptation of PoeTryMe's Flexible Architecture

This paper describes a preliminary effort on adapting an existing poetry generation platform, PoeTryMe, to produce poetry from concept maps, extracted from textual documents. Instead of a set of given words that would constrain a general language semantic network, the presented adaptation dynamically sets the semantic network to the given concept map. As the relations in the concept maps are open, a new generation grammar had also to be created. Besides an architectural overview of the system, this paper is illustrated with several generated poems, together with the maps that originated them. Still, although poetic features are present and the content of the maps is reflected, they do not transmit exactly the meaning of the original document, due both to limitations on the grammars and issues on the quality of the maps.