ConCreTe - Concept Creation Technology
Description
ConCrete aims to study conceptual creativity in humans and machines. Hierarchical memory representations and techniques for conceptual blending are implemented in context of a cognitive architecture of creativity based on information theoretic measures. ConCreTe serves a long-term vision of computer systems that can behave in ways comparable with human creativity, autonomously and interactively, with better interaction between human and machine, better autonomous systems in general, and possibly creativity of new kinds, not yet exhibited by humans. We anticipate on-line creative learning environments, to teach or support creative pursuits and promote creativity in humans. We anticipate immersive gaming and edutainment systems that respond creatively to users’ actions. We anticipate reasoning systems that can propose new technology not intended by their designers. This becomes possible with computationally-creative reasoning when necessary domain knowledge is made available. We use Semantic Web technology to avoid the bottleneck of domain modeling, so creative reasoning can be ready in advance. We focus on mechanisms for generating examples in the creative domain from a learned model, and mechanisms for evaluating generated examples according to novelty and value. We develop AI methodology for creative systems, to exploit the potential of creative computational resources for society. We develop computer systems to simulate conceptualisation by study of deliberately guided methods. We develop computer systems that can conceptualise new meaning in terms of, but not restricted by, its existing knowledge. We develop and implement a cognitive architecture that simulates human creativity, study it as a creative entity in its own right, and behaviourally and neuroscientifically as a model of human creativity. We develop new evaluation methods for computational creativity founded in behavioural study and user responses of software distributed by our exploitation partner.Researchers
F. Amilcar Cardoso (coordinator)
Tiago Martins
Rahul Sharma
António Pedro de Albuquerque Leitão
João Nuno Correia
Alexandre Miguel Pinto
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
Pedro Martins
Penousal Machado
Paulo Gomes
Ana Cláudia Rodrigues
Tiago Martins
Rahul Sharma
António Pedro de Albuquerque Leitão
João Nuno Correia
Alexandre Miguel Pinto
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
Pedro Martins
Penousal Machado
Paulo Gomes
Ana Cláudia Rodrigues
Funded by
7th Framework Programme - ICTPartners
QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON; HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO; UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE; UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA; INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN; UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID; CHATTERBOX ANALYTICS LTDTotal budget
3 215 960,00 €Local budget
421 909,00 €Keywords
Computational Creativity, Concept Creation, Conceptual Blending, Knowledge Representation and Inference, Cognitive ScienceStart Date
2013-10-01End Date
2016-09-30Journal Articles
2019
(2 publications)- Xiao, P. and Toivonen, H. and Gross, O. and Amilcar Cardoso and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado and Martins, P. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Rahul Sharma and A. M. Pinto and Díaz, A. and Francisco, V. and Gervás, P. and Hervás, R. and León, C. and Forth, J. and Purver, M. and Wiggins, G. and Bohanec, M. and Lavrac, N. and Miljkovic, D. and Podpecan, V. and Pollak, S. and Urbancic, T. and Znidarsic, M. and Velde, F.v.d. and Battersby, S. , "Conceptual Representations for Concept Creation", ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 52, 2019
- Martins, P. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and João Gonçalves and Cruz, A. and Amilcar Cardoso and Znidarsic, M. and Lavrac, N. and Linkola, S. and Toivonen, H. and Hervás, R. and Méndez, G. and Gervás, P. , "Computational creativity infrastructure for online software composition: A conceptual blending use case", IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 63, pp. 1-17, 2019
2017
(1 publication)2015
(2 publications)- Gonçalo Oliveira, H, , "Tra-la-lyrics 2.0: Automatic generation of song lyrics on a semantic domain", Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, vol. 6, pp. 87-110, 2015
- Santos, F. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, , "Descoberta de Synsets Difusos com base na Redundância em vários Dicionários", Linguamática, vol. 7, pp. 3-17, 2015
Conference Articles
2016
(8 publications)- Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Alves, A. , "Poetry from Concept Maps — Yet Another Adaptation of PoeTryMe’s Flexible Architecture", in 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2016
- Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Costa, D. and A. M. Pinto , "One does not simply produce funny memes! — Explorations on the Automatic Generation of Internet humor ", in 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2016
- Znidarsic, M. and Amilcar Cardoso and Gervás, P. and Martins, P. and Hervás, R. and Alves, A. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Xiao, P. and Linkola, S. and Toivonen, H. and Kranjc, J. and Lavrac, N. , "Computational Creativity Infrastructure for Online Software Composition: A Conceptual Blending Use Case", in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2016), 2016
- Martins, P. and Pollak, S. and Urbancic, T. and Amilcar Cardoso , "Optimality Principles in Computational Approaches to Conceptual Blending: Do We Need Them (at) All?", in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2016), 2016
- Coelho, Â. and Martins, P. and Amilcar Cardoso , "A Musical Sonification of the Portuguese Epopee", in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (MUME 2016), ICCC 2016, 2016
- Ana Rodrigues and Costa, E. and Amilcar Cardoso and Penousal Machado and Tiago Cruz , "Evolving L-Systems with Musical Notes", in Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design: 5th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2016, Proceedings, 2016
- Gonçalo Oliveira, H, , "Automatic generation of poetry inspired by Twitter trends", in 7th International Joint Conference, IC3K 2015, 2016
- Vinhas, A. and Assunção, F. and Correia, J. and Ekart, A. and Penousal Machado , "Fitness and Novelty in Evolutionary Art", in 2016 International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music and Art (EvoMUSART), 2016
2015
(5 publications)- Costa, D. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and A. M. Pinto , ""In reality there are as many religions as there are papers” — First Steps Towards the Generation of Internet Memes", in 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2015
- Martins, P. and Urbancic, T. and Pollak, S. and Lavrac, N. and Amilcar Cardoso , "The Good, the Bad, and the AHA! Blends", in 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015, 2015
- Cruz, A. and Penousal Machado and Assunção, F. and Leitão, A.P.d.A. , "ELICIT: Evolutionary Computation Visualization", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2015, 2015
- Amilcar Cardoso and Martins, P. and Assunção, F. and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "A Distributed Approach to Computational Creativity", in 9th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC’2015, 2015
- João Gonçalves and Martins, P. and Cruz, A. and Amilcar Cardoso , "Seeking Divisions of Domains on Semantic Networks by Evolutionary Bridging", in The Twenty-Third International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-2015), 2015
2014
(3 publications)- Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Hervás, R. and Díaz, A. and Gervás, P. , "Adapting a Generic Platform for Poetry Generation to Produce Spanish Poems", in 5th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2014) Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2014., 2014
- A. M. Pinto and Barroso, L. , "Principles of Regulated Activation Networks", in International Conference on Conceptual Structures, 2014
- Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Amilcar Cardoso , "Using a generic poetry generation system to produce song lyrics with sentiment", in Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence (C3GI@ECAI 2014), 2014
Book Chapters
2019
(1 publication)2015
(2 publications)- Martins, P. and Pereira, F.C. and Amilcar Cardoso , "Modelos Computacionales para la Integración Conceptual", in Creatividad Computacional, vol. -, pp. 51-64, 2015
- Leitão, A.P.d.A. and Penousal Machado , "Mate Choice in Evolutionary Computation", in Handbook of Genetic Programming Applications, vol. 1, pp. 155-177, 2015