Resources

[hendrikboom3]

Here's the place to propose resources that you think others might find useful.

[ikarth]

I was going to post these in November, but might as well mention them now, too:

I recently learned out the existence of an 18th century literary genre: the "it-narrative". It strike me that, like travel narratives and cookbooks, this might be a fruitful way to structure a generated novel: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-novels-came-to-be-written-in-the-voice-of-coins-stuffed-animals-and-other-random-objects

And for those looking for an interesting corpus, letter-writing manuals are under-used. There's several of them on Archive.org and Project Gutenberg. http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/letterwriting-manuals-were-the-selfhelp-books-of-the-18th-century http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38235 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31072 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22222

[ikarth]

Also, as part of Emily Short's writeup of The Mary Jane of Tomorrow, she discusses poetry generation and points to several resources for rhyme and meter detection.

[hendrikboom3]

Another data base, OpenCyc.

It calls itself "The OpenCyc Platform is your gateway to the full power of Cyc, the world’s largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine."

It looks interesting for our more semantics-based projects.

http://www.opencyc.org/

I gather OpenCyc is the free version. I suspect that Cyc itself is a more extensive paid version somewhere. I first read about Cyc a decade or two ago. I'm impressed they have kept it alive for so long.