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Recent interest in story generators capable of combining more than on plot line into an elaborate story have been handicapped by the lack of either theoretical material or quantitative metrics to ascertain the quality of outputs of such attempts. The present short paper postulates a set of metrics designed to capture some of the insights elaborated during a formative evaluation of an existing attempt at plot weaving.

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Assessing MultiPlot Stories: from Formative Analysis to Computational Metrics

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Computational creativity is an interdisciplinary endeavor that is located at the intersection of the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, philosophy, social sciences and the arts. The goal of computational creativity is to model, simulate or replicate creativity using a computer, to achieve one of several ends:

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This article presents preliminary work on a creative chess engine that can be used to produce creative chess games or sequences. The contribution in this article is the creation of a creative chess engine that is then pitted against itself to form a creative system that outputs chess games. The chess engine is an extension to an existing chess engine that consists of forcing the existing engine to play more creative moves. It is in no way an improvement when compared to existing chess engines, even though it is based on the world's best: Stockfish. Letting the supposedly creative chess engine play against itself forms a creative system that outputs chess games. Through analyzing these games it might be possible to discover new chess openings or principles.

Producing creative chess through chess engine selfplay

Within the field of Computational Creativity, evaluation is one of the most important and more difficult tasks. Sometimes evaluation is part of the creative systems themselves, becoming an internal evaluation. Being a module of a creative system, it is useful to evaluate how effective this internal evaluation is.
In this paper, we propose a procedure for the (meta-)evaluation of internal evaluation modules, that allows for incremental development of both the evaluation module and the creative system, which are considered fully independent of each other. The procedure works by statistically comparing the evaluation of the average output of the generation system with the best results from the same, to see if the evaluation procedure can statistically distinguish the two. We then show how to apply the procedure giving one example evaluating a module we designed to assess structural coherence in generated folk music.

Meta-Evaluating Quantitative Internal Evaluation: a Practical Approach for Developers

Software design patterns can be helpful in describing the architecture of a system. Our objective is to obtain a broad overview of the current state-of-the-art of software design patterns used in Computational Creative (CC) systems. We conducted a systematic mapping study using manual and snowballing search techniques. Only 7 primary studies are identified in the CC community that explicitly mention the use of design patterns. Within these primary studies, 14 design patterns are mentioned, 12 of which are user-interaction design patterns rather than software design patterns describing the architecture of the system. The small number of primary studies indicates a gap in CC literature regarding the use of software design patterns in CC systems and motivates the need for research to identify software design patterns specific to CC systems.

Software Design Patterns of Computational Creativity: A Systematic Mapping Study

This paper describes a system for the design or redesign of movie posters. The main reasoning strategy used by the system is case-based reasoning (Leake 1996), which requires two important sub-tasks to be performed: case retrieval and case adaptation. We have used the random forest algorithm to implement the case retrieval subtask, as it allows the system to formulate a generalization of the features of all the top matching cases that are deter-mined to be most relevant to the new (re)design desired. We have used heuristic rules to implement the case ad-aptation task which results in generating the suggestion for poster composition. These heuristic rules are based on the Gestalt theory of composition (Arnheim 1974) and the requirements specified by the user.

A Case-Based Approach to Creating Movie Poster Compositions

In this paper we argue that the computational creativity community would benefit by working together to create a methodology for a systematic assessment and comparison of our creative agents. To achieve this goal, we suggest collaborating with experts in real-world environments to develop what we refer to as Rich Creative Environment Experience (RICEE). We describe a work in progress, where two artists and one CC scientist collaborate, to illustrate a possible way to build a RICEE. Based on this experience, we suggest some initial steps to start the development of this methodology. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to motivate the CC community to collaborate in the development of a methodology for the design and implementation of RICEEs.

The stone of madness meets AI

We conjecture that creativity and the perception of creativity are, at least to some extent, shaped by embodiment. This makes embodiment highly relevant for computational creativity (CC) research, but existing research is scarce and the use of the concept highly ambiguous. We overcome this situation by means of a systematic review and a prescriptive analysis of publications at the International Conference on Computational Creativity. We adopt and extend an established typology of embodiment to resolve ambiguity through identifying and comparing different usages of the concept. We collect, contextualise and highlight opportunities and challenges in embracing embodiment in CC as a reference for research, and put forward important directions to further the embodied CC research programme.

Embodiment and Computational Creativity (Study Paper)

In this presentation we focus on two of the major concepts we present in the main paper, namely: how we can understand the Typicality and Novelty of an object with Models created by an observer, and sophistication which lets us analyse the creator of a creative object. We also talk about highly sophisticated objects which can be regarded as masterpieces of the creator. Finally, we review some related works in computational aesthetics and how they can be improved. 



Incorporating Algorithmic Information Theory into Fundamental Concepts of Computational Creativity

Generative deep learning systems offer powerful tools for artefact generation, given their ability to model distributions of data and generate high-fidelity results. In the context of computational creativity, however, a major shortcoming is that they are unable to explicitly diverge from the training data in creative ways and are limited to fitting the target data distribution. To address these limitations, there have been a growing number of approaches for optimising, hacking and rewriting these models in order to actively diverge from the training data. We present a taxonomy and comprehensive survey of the state of the art of active divergence techniques, highlighting the potential for computational creativity researchers to advance these methods and use deep generative models in truly creative systems.

Active Divergence with Generative Deep Learning - A Survey and Taxonomy

Getting machines to generate text perceived as creative is a long-pursued goal. A growing body of research directs this goal towards augmenting the creative writing abilities of human authors. In this paper, we pursue this objective by analyzing how observing examples of automatically generated text influences writing. In particular, we examine a task referred to as sentence infilling, which involves transforming a list of words into a complete sentence. We emphasize “storiability” as a desirable feature of the resulting sentences, where “storiable” sentences are those that suggest a story a reader would be curious to hear about. Both humans and an automated system (based on a neural language model) performed this sentence infilling task. In one setting, people wrote sentences on their own; in a different setting, people observed the sentences produced by the model while writing their own sentences. Readers then assigned storiability preferences to the resulting sentences in a subsequent evaluation. We find that human-authored sentences were judged as more storiable when authors observed the generated examples, and that storiability increased as authors derived more semantic content from the examples. This result gives evidence of an “inspiration through observation” paradigm for human-computer collaborative writing, through which human writing can be enhanced by text generation models without directly copying their output.

Inspiration through Observation: Demonstrating the Influence of Automatically Generated Text on Creative Writing

Large pre-trained transformer-based language models have revolutionized the field of natural language processing in recent years. While BERT-like models perform exceptionally well for analytical tasks such as classification and regression, their text generation capabilities are usually limited to predicting tokens within a given context. In this paper, we introduce Galmet, a model that generates text by using genetic algorithms with BERT-like language models for evolving text. We use Galmet with the RoBERTa language model to automatically evolve real headlines into more satirical headlines. This is achieved by adapting the masked language head to the headlines domain for the mutation operator and finetuning a regression head to distinguish headlines from satire for the fitness function. We evaluated our system by comparing generated satirical headlines against human-edited headlines and just the fine-tuned masked language head. We found that while humans generally outperform the model, generations by Galmet are also often preferred over human-edited headlines. However, we also found that only using the fine-tuned masked language model gives slightly preferred satire due to generating more readable sentences. Galmet is thus a first step towards a new way of creating text generators using masked language models by transforming text guided by scores from another language model.

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