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Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Cook, Paul Feldman, Anna |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | It is generally agreed upon that creativity is an important property of human language. For example, speakers routinely coin new words, employ novel metaphors, and play with words through puns. Indeed, such creative processes take place at all levels of language from the lexicon, to syntax, semantics, and discourse. Creativity allows speakers to express themselves with their own individual style. It further provides new ways of looking at the world, by describing something through the use of unusual comparisons for effect or emphasis, and thus making language more engaging and fun. Listeners are typically able to understand creative language without any difficulties. On the other hand, generating and recognizing creative language presents a tremendous challenge for natural language processing (NLP) systems. The recognition of instances of linguistic creativity, and the computation of their meaning, constitute one of the most challenging problems for a variety of NLP tasks, such as machine translation, text summarization, information retrieval, dialog systems, and sentiment analysis. Moreover, models of linguistic creativity are necessary for systems capable of generating story narratives, jokes, or poetry. Nevertheless, despite the importance of linguistic creativity in many NLP tasks, it still remains unclear how to model, simulate, or evaluate linguistic creativity. Furthermore, research on topics related to linguistic creativity has not received a great deal of attention at major computational linguistics conferences in recent years. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://aclweb.org/anthology//W/W10/W10-0300.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://aclweb.org/anthology/W10-0300 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://anthology.aclweb.org/W/W10/W10-0300.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W10/W10-0300.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/~antho/W/W10/W10-0300.pdf |
| Journal | HLT-NAACL 2010 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Proceeding |
