{"id":1731,"date":"2013-06-09T16:16:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T20:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2013-06-09T16:16:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T20:16:46","slug":"the-poetry-assessor-will-assess-your-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Assessor Will Assess Your Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

New and interesting algorithmic tool that evaluates and scores the quality of contemporary poems<\/a> developed by Michael Dalvean. Better than the Pritchard Scale, to be sure. His write-up on the research is here (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The upshot of identifying the characteristics of high quality poems is that we can then come up with a means of placing poems on a continuum according to how much a poem exemplifies the characteristics of an amateur poem or, at the other extreme, a professional poem. We can then use this continuum to rank professional poems and, in doing so, we can make some objective statements about which poems are \u201cbetter\u201d. There is a tradition of considering some poets as \u201cminor\u201d and others as \u201cmajor\u201d (Eliot, 1946). Placing poems on a continuum that is based on the extent to which poems possess the craftsmanship of a professional may be a step towards explaining why some poets are \u201cgreater\u201d than others. Thus, an important element of this paper is the creation of such a continuum using a corpus of contemporary American poets.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New and interesting algorithmic tool that evaluates and scores the quality of contemporary poems developed by Michael Dalvean. Better than the Pritchard Scale, to be sure. His write-up on the research is here (PDF). The upshot of identifying the characteristics of high quality poems is that we can then come up with a means of placing poems on a continuum …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}