Inspiration
My background is in linguistics. I’ve been wanting to write a program dealing with language and I’m a fan of Douglas Adams, so I decided to write a program that writes very bad poetry.
What it does
At a minimum I hope to actually generate some poetry. If I have time I’d like to add a machine-learning aspect to improve its poetry-writing abilities.
How I built it
I read nltk documentation and fell down a lot of Internet rabbit holes about NLP.
Challenges I ran into
It turns out that parsing syntax is complicated. I spent a lot of time working on a proper parser with a CFG, but it will take far more time to get that working than I had during this Hackathon.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I did succeed in writing a program that "learns" new words and patterns after it reads more text.
What I learned
I'd never spent much time developing in Python before this project. I learned Python as I went. I also learned more about NLP than I knew before.
What's next for Vogonesque Poetry-Writing Machine
I'd love to get a proper parser working so that I can build and update a grammar instead of the pattern-saving solution I implemented here.
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