Objective: Develop an algorithm to generate haikus using song lyrics.

Motivation: Because computational linguistics are cool.

Project: twitter.com/thehaikuza

Features:

• Scrapes Virgin Radio’s broadcast history to find recently played songs
• Creates a song-based haiku queue in Google Sheets
• Generates a haiku using the queue as a reference and posts it on Twitter
• Checks for new tweets every 5 minutes and generates a relevant haiku, if requested
• Finds all song lyrics from Lyrics Wikia
• Runs on a Raspberry Pi

Challenges:

• Formulaically counting syllables
• Developing a context-free language model
• Creating phrases that actually make sense

Framework: Python 2.7.9

Source: Github

Raspberry Pi 1 Model B running @thehaikuza, 24/7!

Interested about the development of @thehaikuza? Follow it on The Making of Project Haikuza: Part 1!