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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971607703321

Autore

Pereira Francisco Câmara <1972->

Titolo

Creativity and artificial intelligence : a conceptual blending approach / / by Francisco Camara Pereira

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007

ISBN

9786612194481

9781282194489

1282194488

9783110198560

3110198568

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Applications of cognitive linguistics, , 1861-4078 ; ; 4

Classificazione

ER 900

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

Creativity (Linguistics)

Artificial intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Creativity -- Chapter 3 Working with Concepts -- Chapter 4 A Model of Concept Invention -- Chapter 5 Divago -- Chapter 6 Experiments -- Chapter 7 Conclusions and Future Directions -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Creativity and Artificial Intelligence: A Conceptual Blending Approach takes readers into a computationally plausible model of creativity. Inspired by a thorough analysis of work on creativity from the areas of philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, cognitive linguistics and artificial intelligence, the author deals with the various processes, principles and representations that lie underneath the act of creativity. Focusing on Arthur Koestler's Bisociations, which eventually lead to Turner and Fauconnier's conceptual blending framework, the book proposes a theoretical model that considers blends and their emergent structure as a fundamental cognitive mechanism. The author thus discusses the computational implementation of several aspects of conceptual blending theory, namely composition, completion, elaboration, frames and optimality constraints. Informal descriptions and examples are supplied to provide non-computer scientists as well



as non-cognitive linguists with clear insights into these ideas. Several experiments are made, and their results are discussed, with particular emphasis on the validation of the creativity and conceptual blending aspects. Written by a researcher with a background in artificial intelligence, the book is the result of several years of exploration and discussion from different theoretical perspectives. As a result, the book echoes some of the criticism made on conceptual blending and creativity in artificial intelligence, and thus proposes improvements in both areas, with the aim of being a constructive contribution to these very intriguing, yet appealing, research orientations.