Author: Marie Claire Uwiringiyimana

Project: InkMind — AI-Powered Poetry Generation

Field: Natural Language Processing (NLP)

1. Introduction

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of Artificial Intelligence that enables computers to process, understand, and generate human language. Recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly improved the ability of computers to produce meaningful text, answer questions, and support creative writing.

As part of my NLP learning journey, I worked on InkMind , a poetry generation project that transforms a simple word or idea into a complete poem. For example, a user can enter the word "Love," and the system generates a poem inspired by that theme.

Our current implementation uses GPT-2, a pretrained language model developed by OpenAI.…