3 papers
cs.CL2025
so much depends / upon / a whitespace: Why Whitespace Matters for Poets and LLMs
Sriharsh Bhyravajjula, Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus +1
Whitespace is a critical component of poetic form, reflecting both adherence to standardized forms and rebellion against those forms. Each poem's whitespace distribution reflects t…
cs.CL2024
Does ChatGPT Have a Poetic Style?
Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus, Elizabeth Gronski
Generating poetry has become a popular application of LLMs, perhaps especially of OpenAI's widely-used chatbot ChatGPT. What kind of poet is ChatGPT? Does ChatGPT have its own poet…
cs.CL2024
Sonnet or Not, Bot? Poetry Evaluation for Large Models and Datasets
Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus, Maria Antoniak
Large language models (LLMs) can now generate and recognize poetry. But what do LLMs really know about poetry? We develop a task to evaluate how well LLMs recognize one aspect of E…