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The New York Times gets haiku all wrong, and I’m infuriated. Probably more than I should be.

By Matthew Dicks | April 8, 2014 | Comments Off on The New York Times gets haiku all wrong, and I’m infuriated. Probably more than I should be.

The New York Times has been publishing “serendipitous haikus” for the last couple years on a Tumblr called Times Haiku. An algorithm designed to detect potential haikus in text periodically scans the New York Times home page for newly published articles. Then it scans each sentence looking for potential haikus by using an electronic dictionary…

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