Poem Bot

Installation

This program is written in Python 3 with the following packages:

PyGI
NLTK
requests
PRAW (optional, used for Reddit scraper)
ProgressBar (optional, used for Reddit scraper)

Quickstart

1. From the terminal cd to the poem-bot directory.
2. mkdir data
3. Fill the data directory with more directories. For example: create separate directories for individual poets, or for styles of poetry.
4. Fill these directories with poems in text files that have the .txt extension.
5. From the command line you can use python poembot.py to start the GUI.
6. On the left select 1 or more training sets and 1 or more poetic forms.
7. Hit the "Train" and wait for it to finish training.
8. Hit the "Generate" button to generate a poem.

What works

A basic markov model for training and generating poems from input. Some GUI elements for configuring the bot.

What is in progress

• More models to incorporate into the pipeline such as part-of-speech tagging, poetic forms to enforce meter and rhyme, etc.
• Integration with the Datamuse API for rhymes and synonyms and other enhancements it can provide.
• Integration with the Wordnik API for information on word syllables and stresses for tracking meter and syllable counts.
• GUI features for examining a poem and looking at why the bot chose each word and third-party API outputs for each word.

Want to help?

Just fork and submit a pull request. I'll review it and if it looks good, then merge it in.

License

MIT