Summary
Demo
A System for Generating Haiku
Cultural Computing
Different cultures have special rules and common elements that humans identify as behavior or grammar. We developed a computer model to illustrate this. We also developed Hitch Haiku, a system to express and to interactively experience cultural understanding using cultural computing. This system interactively aids users in creating haiku, poems with imagery-maximizing mechanisms, the shortest in the world. First, “kire-ji”, words that indicate a transition in the poem, and particles are added to the word/phrase input by the user to make a five- or seven-syllable phrase. Second, phrases including terminology related to the user’s input are located in a phrase database holding examples of haiku from the Japanese literary four-season calendar, ensuring the cultural validity of the haiku. These phrases are then “hitched” together to generate a haiku. Although this system periodically generates flawed haiku, the ability to generate haiku that support the expansion of users’ cultural understanding has been confirmed through assessment experimentation.
Contributors
Seigow Matsuoka
Editorial Engineering Lab
Michihiko Minoh
Hideto Obara
Kyoto University
Ryohei Nakatsu
Kwansai Gakuin University
Adrian David Cheok
Owen Noel Newton Fernando
Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore
News
2009年10月1日読売新聞掲載 PDF
Paper
2008-Hitch-Haiku：コンピュータによる俳句創作支援システム 土佐 尚子, 尾原 秀登, 美濃 導彦, 松岡 正剛 映像情報メディア学会誌 第62巻 第2号 247~255 2008年 PDF（参照：Publication – Paper）
Example works
Hitch Haiku + Kasane System (Haiku Generator + Kasane) Example works