The Possibility of the Literary Work Generation by Computer

Abstract

Recently the importance of entertainment for senior citizens and children has been pointed out. Accordingly, it is necessary to develop robots who can write poems, compose music, paint pictures, etc. For that, for instance, an automatic poem or story generation system will be necessary. This chapter will show the possibility of literary-work (poem, story, novel etc.) generation. First, the author introduces the research field, “Language-Sense Processing Engineering (LSE)” where the affective or psychological aspects of language is focused on. The author defined “language sense (the key concept in LSE)” as affective or psychological aspects of language. One of the features can be used for literary work generation is the “intertextuality” proposed by J. Kristeva. The possibility of the automatic literary work generation will be shown by the strategy to generate waka (Japanese poem). In addition, several strategies to generate literary works will be shown to illustrate the possibility of the automatic literary work generation.