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Joanna Misztal Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
12pm, Wednesday 12th November 2014
Room 2107, Richard Hoggart building, Goldsmiths
ABSTRACT: In this presentation I will introduce a poetry-generating system based on the blackboard multi-agent architecture. The system produces poems based on the information extracted from input text, particularly a blog post, which is used as an inspiration for the poem. Our design uses the blackboard architecture, in which independent specialized modules cooperate by sharing a common workspace – the blackboard. Our implemented system incorporates modules responsible for information retrieval from the text, generating new ideas, while also evaluating produced outputs. Distinct experts are implemented as diverse computational modules that make use of lexical resources, grammar models, sentiment-analyzing tools and language-processing algorithms. There is also a control module responsible for scheduling actions on the blackboard.
The blackboard architecture seems to be a promising way of simulating creative
processes because of its ?exibility and compliance with the Global Workspace Theory of mind. Applying the empirical criteria of evaluation to the outputs generated by our systems reveals that it is capable of generating some interesting and atypical poems, which suggests that the system has some potential for creativity. In our future work, we plan to extend the system by incorporating new experts as well as some already existing poetry-generating systems as parts of the blackboard architecture.??
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| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 12 Nov 2014 | 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
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