OUPOCO: Automated Poetry Animation

We produced an animation about the OUPOCO (Ouvroir de Poésie Combinatoire) project, led by Thierry Poibeau ( LATTICE, ENS). OUPOCO 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.At LATTICE (ENS), a team of researchers around Thierry Poibeau decided to explore this idea and created L’Ouvroir de Poésie Combinatoire “OUPOCO”. 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.The algorithm exploits this knowledge, allowing 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. Then, once you have fine-tuned your design, you can combine and generate your own poem instantaneously. Animation by Fiammetta Ghedini.