The Oral Poetics project (2019—) is focused on
how we can model remarkable oral poetic practices, and oral creativity, in a
way that is rooted in orature, instead of being based (for instance)
on corpora of written, literate-culture documents. We aim to
develop computational systems that can improvise in oral exchanges with people.
The project is in very early stages. We expect to have something to share by
the end of 2019.
People
Current project members: Judy Heflin and
Nick Montfort (project lead).
Logo for the Oral Poetics project is CC BY-SA 3.0, based on a public domain photo of a statue of Homer and a CC BY-SA 3.0 photo of Common at Tufts University by Kelsey Marie Bell.
