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Winners of the IJCAI 2023 Video Competition

We are very proud to have won the IJCAI 2023 Video Competition for most entertaining video

A RIVA Illustrations’ animation about the OUPOCO (Ouvroir de Poésie Combinatoire) project, led by Thierry Poibeau (LATTICE, ENS) makes possible for everybody to write a poem in less than a minute!  This research project is inspired by Raymond Queneau, a French author that in the 60s invented an analogical allowing to create up to one hundred thousand billion of different poems. On the OUPOCO website you can create poetry by combining not only 10 but several thousands poems, written by French poets from the 19th century. This knowledge is exploited by the algorithm, that allows you to choose not only the structure of your poem, but also the authors you want to be inspired by, the type of rhyme you want to use and even pick the main theme. And once you have fine-tuned your design, you can combine and generate your own poem instantaneously.

Research: Thierry Poibeau (LATTICE – ENS)
Concept and animation: Fiammetta Ghedini / RIVA Illustrations
Voice: Martin Cannon
Theme: Luigi Critone