Poet Admits // Mute Cypher: Beam Search to nd Mutually Enciphering Poetic Texts
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The Xenotext Experiment implants poetry into an extremophile’s DNA, and uses that DNA to generate new poetry in a protein form. The molecular machinery of life requires that these two poems encipher each other under a symmetric substitution cipher. We search for ciphers which permit writing under the Xenotext constraints, incorporating ideas from cipher-cracking algorithms, and using n-gram data to assess a cipher’s “writability”. Our algorithm, Beam Verse, is a beam search which uses new heuristics to navigate the cipher-space. We find thousands of ciphers which score higher than successful ciphers used to write Xenotext constrained texts.
Citation
C. Peterson, A. Fyshe. "Poet Admits // Mute Cypher: Beam Search to nd Mutually Enciphering Poetic Texts". EMNLP - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Austin, USA, pp 1339–1347, November 2016.| Keywords: | |
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BibTeX
@incollection{Peterson+Fyshe:(EMNLP)16,
author = {Cole Peterson and Alona Fyshe},
title = {Poet Admits // Mute Cypher: Beam Search to nd Mutually Enciphering
Poetic Texts},
Pages = {1339–1347},
booktitle = {EMNLP - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing},
year = 2016,
}Last Updated: June 22, 2020Submitted by Sabina P
