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The Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity<\/a> has just concluded. I posted about the morning;<\/a> here are my notes on the afternoon talks.<\/p>\n

The first item for the afternoon was my invited talk, “Curveship: An Interactive Fiction System for Interactive Narrating”<\/a> I worked a while to provide the paper<\/a> to accompany my talk, trying to introduce IF, explain the basics of narrative variation, and get into at least some of the technical details of my system, including the string-with-slots representation, which I’ve been working on a great deal recently. I also tried to include handy references and pointers. Incidentally, I’ve been meaning to post more about Curveship,<\/a> and I’d love to hear any questions you have about it at this point, even before I’ve properly introduced the system on this blog.<\/p>\n

After my talk, we had more time for poster presentation; one poster was on author and character goals for story generation.<\/p>\n

The “From Morphology to Pragmatics to Text”<\/a> session concluded the day:<\/p>\n

Andrew Goldberg presented work by three others on a ML algorithm to assess the creativity of sentences: outliers that are still meaningful. The Winconsin Creative Writing<\/a> dataset was assembled and used. Using language modeling, word norms, and WordNet, the did partially predicted creativity scores. (Pointed out in the Q&A: All the non-creative sentences were much shorter, so you could just use one feature – length!)<\/p>\n

Stefano Vegnaduzzo presented state-of-the-art work on complex adjectives – ones that are made of at least two words separated by a hyphen. These are frequent, as corpus analysis of Wikipedia and the Web shows. Two-word complex adjectives, identified with a part-of-speech tagger, were the focus. Morphological productive processes allow the unintentional, unlimited, regular creation of words; building complex adjectives is one. Checking for hapax legomena<\/a> gives a measure of productivity within morphological categories: “non-X” was tops in both corpora. Realized and potential productivity were found, and found to be similar across corpora.<\/p>\n

Allan Ramsay presented work on how the same words can have different meanings in different contexts. The sentence “I’m sorry I missed your talk” was one fixed text, along with “I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that.” It’s not because “sorry” is ambiguous. “Sorry” expresses a relationship between an individual and a state of affairs (which the individual wishes were not the case). There’s no first-order representation. The representation is extremely elaborate, but not too complex. Appropriate background knowledge is essential. One conclusion: A system that takes part in conversations will have to build meaning representations and carry out inference. (In Q&A, I learned that there’s more in the paper about being mistaken, lying, and using irony and sarcasm.)<\/p>\n

One way to get at the papers from this workshop is by seeing the title and author information on the CALC-09 site<\/a> and then using your favorite search engine to locate them online – I assume all, or at least almost all, have been placed online by authors. ACL also offers past workshop proceedings<\/a> for purchase. Maybe the CALC-09 proceedings will be available that way, too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity has just concluded. I posted about the morning; here are my notes on the afternoon talks. The first item for the afternoon was my invited talk, “Curveship: An Interactive Fiction System for Interactive Narrating” I worked a while to provide the paper to accompany my talk, trying … <\/p>\n

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