Anna Preus — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

so much depends / upon / a whitespace: Why Whitespace Matters for Poets and LLMs

Sriharsh Bhyravajjula, Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus, Maria Antoniak

EMNLP 2025

Whitespace is a critical component of poetic form, reflecting both adherence to standardized forms and rebellion against those forms. Each poem’s whitespace distribution reflects the artistic choices of the poet and is an integral semantic and spatial feature of the poem. Yet, despite the popularity

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2024

Sonnet or Not, Bot? Poetry Evaluation for Large Models and Datasets

Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus, Maria Antoniak

EMNLP 2024finding

Large language models (LLMs) can now generate and recognize poetry. But what do LLMs really know about poetry? We develop a task to evaluate how well LLMs recognize one aspect of English-language poetry—poetic form—which captures many different poetic features, including rhyme scheme, meter, and wor…

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