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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pereira, Francisco Câmara, 1972-

Series:

Applications of cognitive linguistics ; 4.

Applications of cognitive linguistics, 1861-4078 ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creativity (Linguistics).

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786612194481

9781282194489

1282194488

9783110198560

3110198568

OCLC:

437233352