Hitch Haiku 〜コンピュータによる俳句創作支援システム〜

Abstract

The authors maintain that there are unique and common forms of cultures that humans set aside such as the behavior and grammar within each culture. We suggest a computer model of this and a method of interactive expression and experiencing cultural understanding using IT called "cultural computing". This paper describes Hitch Haiku, a system based on cultural computing that interactively aids users in generating haiku, the world's shortest poems with imagery-maximizing mechanisms. First, "kire-ji" and particles are added to the word (s) input by a user to make a five or seven-character phrase, then phrases including terminology related to the user's input are located in a phrase database holding examples of haiku from the literary calendar, ensuring the cultural validity of the haiku. These phrases are then "hitched" together to generate a haiku. Although the haiku generated by this system have periodically resulted in flawed haiku, the ability to generate haiku that support the expansion of users' minds has been confirmed through assessment experimentation.