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Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Thursday, June 4, 2009

8:30–9:15Coffee Session
9:15–9:20Welcome and Introduction to CALC-09
 Session 1: Metaphors and Eggcorns
9:20–9:45Discourse Topics and Metaphors
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Eyal Beigman and Daniel Diermeier
9:45–10:10Topic Model Analysis of Metaphor Frequency for Psycholinguistic Stimuli
Steven Bethard, Vicky Tzuyin Lai and James H. Martin
10:10–10:35Understanding Eggcorns
Sravana Reddy
10:35–11:00Morning break
 Session 2: Generating Creative Texts
11:05–11:30Automatically Extracting Word Relationships as Templates for Pun Generation
Bryan Anthony Hong and Ethel Ong
11:30–11:55Gaiku : Generating Haiku with Word Associations Norms
Yael Netzer, David Gabay, Yoav Goldberg and Michael Elhadad
 Poster Session 1
12:00–12:15Automatic Generation of Tamil Lyrics for Melodies
Ananth Ramakrishnan A., Sankar Kuppan and Sobha Lalitha Devi
12:15–12:30Quantifying Constructional Productivity with Unseen Slot Members
Amir Zeldes
12:30–14:00Lunch
 Invited Talk
14:00–15:00Curveship: An Interactive Fiction System for Interactive Narrating
Nick Montfort
 Poster Session 2
15:00–15:15Planning Author and Character Goals for Story Generation
Candice Solis, Joan Tiffany Siy, Emerald Tabirao and Ethel Ong
15:15–15:30An Unsupervised Model for Text Message Normalization
Paul Cook and Suzanne Stevenson
15:30–16:00Afternoon Break
 Session 3: From Morphology to Pragmatics to Text
16:00–16:25Morphological Productivity Rankings of Complex Adjectives
Stefano Vegnaduzzo
16:25–16:50How Creative is Your Writing?
Xiaojin Zhu, Zhiting Xu and Tushar Khot
16:50–17:15’Sorry’ is the hardest word
Allan Ramsay and Debora Field
17:15–17:30Summary and General Discussion