{"id":1711,"date":"2019-09-01T08:55:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2019-09-01T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T03:25:07","slug":"poetry-in-prolog-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/01\/poetry-in-prolog-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry in Prolog: Part-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an earlier post<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, I showed how Prolog<\/strong><\/em> can be used to generate poetry, making use of my “iLexicon”<\/strong><\/em>. I want to continue the discussion today by giving another example, this time based on the theme of sounds emitted by various animals and birds.<\/p>\n

As hinted in my previous articles, “iLexicon”<\/strong><\/em> stands for “Intelligent Lexicon”<\/strong><\/em>. It is a fairly large repository (presently containing around 2.5 million entries) of English words and their related information. In this\u00a0article<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, I showed how “iLexicon”<\/strong><\/em> can help us in identifying interesting word patterns. That example was based on the Lisp<\/strong><\/em> implementation of iLexicon<\/strong><\/em>; subsequently I have also ported it to Sicstus prolog<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In today’s article, I will walk you through a DCG (Definite Clause Grammar)<\/strong><\/em> that generates a poem referencing various sounds of animals and birds. In order to do this, it taps into the knowledgebase contained in iLexicon<\/strong><\/em> about various species (animals, birds, fish, insects, etc.) and the names of sounds emitted by them. For example,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n