Conceptual Representations for Computational Concept Creation

Computational creativity seeks to understand computational mechanisms that can be characterized as creative. The creation of new concepts is a central challenge for any creative system. In this article, we outline different approaches to computational concept creation and then review conceptual representations relevant to concept creation, and therefore to computational creativity. The conceptual representations are organized in accordance with two important perspectives on the distinctions between them. One distinction is between symbolic, spatial and connectionist representations. The other is between descriptive and procedural representations. Additionally, conceptual representations used in particular creative domains, such as language, music, image and emotion, are reviewed separately. For every representation reviewed, we cover the inference it affords, the computational means of building it, and its application in concept creation.Peer reviewe

Long Text Generation via Adversarial Training with Leaked Information

Automatically generating coherent and semantically meaningful text has many applications in machine translation, dialogue systems, image captioning, etc. Recently, by combining with policy gradient, Generative Adversarial Nets (GAN) that use a discriminative model to guide the training of the generative model as a reinforcement learning policy has shown promising results in text generation. However, the scalar guiding signal is only available after the entire text has been generated and lacks intermediate information about text structure during the generative process. As such, it limits its success when the length of the generated text samples is long (more than 20 words). In this paper, we propose a new framework, called LeakGAN, to address the problem for long text generation. We allow the discriminative net to leak its own high-level extracted features to the generative net to further help the guidance. The generator incorporates such informative signals into all generation steps through an additional Manager module, which takes the extracted features of current generated words and outputs a latent vector to guide the Worker module for next-word generation. Our extensive experiments on synthetic data and various real-world tasks with Turing test demonstrate that LeakGAN is highly effective in long text generation and also improves the performance in short text generation scenarios. More importantly, without any supervision, LeakGAN would be able to implicitly learn sentence structures only through the interaction between Manager and Worker.Comment: 14 pages, AAAI 201

Conceiving God: Literal and Figurative Prompt for a More Tectonic Distinction

John Sanders’ Theology in the Flesh, the first comprehensive overview of the toolkit that contemporary cognitive linguistics offers for theological appropriation, despite its remarkable success, gives rather minimal attention to blending theory, one of the discipline’s most formidable tools. This paper draws on blending theory to offer an alternative to Sanders’ chapter on conceiving God. Central to the proposal is claim that God-talk, like many of the advances in science, technology, and art, entails a kind of tectonic understanding and conceptual mapping that is neither literal nor figurative

Application of machine learning to predict quality of Portuguese wine based on sensory preferences

Dissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Information Management, specialization in Knowledge Management and Business IntelligenceTechnology has been broadly used in the wine industry, from vineyards to purchases, improving means or understanding customers' preferences. Numerous companies are using machine learning solutions to leverage their business. Henceforth, the sensory properties of wines constitute a significant element to determine wine quality, that combined with the accuracy of predictive models attained by classification methods, could be helpful to support winemakers enhance their outcomes. This research proposes a supervised machine learning approach to predict the quality of Portuguese wines based on sensory characteristics such as acidity, intensity, sweetness, and tannin. Additionally, this study includes red and white wines, implements, and compare the effectiveness of three classification algorithms. The conclusions promote understanding the importance of the sensory characteristics that influence the wine quality throughout customers' perception.Tecnologia vem sendo amplamente empregada na indústria do vinho. Desde melhoria em processos de cultivo à compreensão de mercado por meio da análise de preferência de consumidores. Tendo em vista à atual dinâmica dos mercados, empresas estão gradualmente a considerar soluções que implementam conceitos de aprendizagem de máquina e tragam diferencial competitivo para potencializar o negócio. Doravante, propriedades sensoriais são importantes elementos para determinação da qualidade do vinho, que aliado à precisão obtida por modelos preditivos podem auxiliar produtores de vinho a melhorar produtos e resultados. O presente estudo propõe a elaboração de modelos de aprendizado supervisionado, baseado em algoritmos de classificação a fim de prever qualidade de vinhos portugueses a partir de dados sensoriais detetados por consumidores como acidez, intensidade, açúcar e taninos. A pesquisa inclui vinhos tintos e brancos; implementa e compara a efetividade de três algoritmos de classificação. Não obstante, o estudo permite compreender como dados sensoriais fornecidos por consumidores podem determinar a qualidade de vinhos, bem como perceber quais características contribuem no processo de avaliação

Winning, Losing, and Changing the Rules: The Rhetoric of Poetry Contests and Competition

This dissertation attempts to trace the shifting relationship between the fields of Rhetoric and Poetry in Western culture by focusing on poetry contests and competitions during several different historical eras. In order to examine how the distinction between the two fields is contingent on a variety of local factors, this study makes use of research in contemporary cognitive neuroscience, particularly work in categorization and cognitive linguistics, to emphasize the provisional nature of conceptual thought; that is, on the type of mental activity that gives rise to conceptualizations such as “Rhetoric” and “Poetry.” The final portions of the research attempt to use some modeling techniques derived from cognitive linguistics as invention strategies for producing stylistically idiosyncratic academic knowledge, and for examining the relationship between the stylistic markers we associate with each of the two aforementioned fields