Hitch Haiku: A System for Generating HaikuCultural ComputingDifferent 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.ContactNaoko TosaKyoto University tosa (at) mm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp ContributorsSeigow MatsuokaEditorial 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 |
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