Engineering linguistic creativity: bird flight and jet planes

  • Authors:
  • Pablo Gervás

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • CALC '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Man achieved flight by studying how birds fly, and yet the solution that engineers came up with (jet planes) is very different from the one birds apply. In this paper I review a number of efforts in automated story telling and poetry generation, identifying which human abilities are being modelled in each case. In an analogy to the classic example of bird-flight and jet planes, I explore how the computational models relate to (the little we know about) human performance, what the similarities are between the case for linguistic creativity and the case for flight, and what the analogy might have to say about artificial linguistic creativity if it were valid.