Evaluation is one of the major open problems in computational creativity research. Existing evaluation methods, either focusing on system performance or on user interaction, do not fully capture the important aspects of these systems as cultural artifacts. In this position paper, we examine existing evaluation methods in the area of computational narrative, and identify several important proper...

Evaluation is one of the major open problems in computational creativity research. Existing evaluation methods, either focusing on system performance or on user interaction, do not fully capture the important aspects of these systems as cultural artifacts. In this position paper, we examine existing evaluation methods in the area of computational narrative, and identify several important proper...

In his article, "Literary Careers: Breaks and Stalls," W. Ray Crozier argues that biographical evidence points to considerable individual variation in writers' output over the life span even when allowance is made for longevity and length of writing career. This issue has been neglected by psychological accounts of creativity. Crozier outlines a theoretical framework for understanding variation...

The task of modern creativity in advertising is to find fresh, interestprovoking ways of conveying meaningful information realistically and on the reader‟s own terms. As Nilsen says, “in many ways, advertisers are today‟s pop culture poets. They value the power and the flexibility of the English language just as much as do their literary colleagues on college campuses and writing colonies.” 2 T...

We present in this paper a numerical investigation of literary texts by various well-known English writers, covering the first half of the twentieth century, based upon the results obtained through corpus analysis of the texts. A fractal power law is obtained for the lexical wealth defined as the ratio between the number of different words and the total number of words of a given text. By consi...

the arabic literary criticism has passed various stages up to its modem formation. each stage has its own characteristics. then through different processes of its development it reached the peak. one may notice excellent creativity, innovations, and systematic approach. of course, the experts have their own ways of calssification for these stages. some believe in detail and some in brief these ...

UNLABELLED Saadat Hasan 'Manto' is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest short story writers in the world. He died at the age of forty three from complications of alcoholism. All of his life, he suffered from symptoms of anxiety and depression and his alcohol abuse was intimately linked both to his mental distress as well as his creative genius. This paper examines the life of Manto from a...