"Haiku Generator" (from Cybernetic Serendepity: the computer and the arts)

Introduction

Margaret Masterman, a British computational linguist who founded the Cambridge Language Research Unit, combined frame and grammar-based approaches in her text generator. Her “Haiku Generator” produced semantic schemas that were populated by domain-specific vocabulary (i.e. the typical language of haikus). Inspired by Wittgenstein and I.A. Richards to see language as a semantic web, Masterman’s work on interlinguas, or semantic systems, also drew on biological schemata for plant classification, using hierarchical trees or lattices. The first book on display, Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts, shows the semantic schema for Masterman’s haiku generator.

Additional Information

Label

"Haiku Generator" (from Cybernetic Serendepity: the computer and the arts)

Author

Margaret Masterman

Original Publication Date

1968

New Publication Date

1968

Publisher

Praeger

Location

Avery

Case

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