This paper surveys the current state of the art in Natural Language Generation (NLG),
defined as the task of generating text or speech from non-linguistic input. A survey of NLG is …

Creative machines are an old idea, but only recently computational creativity has
established itself as a research field with its own identity and research agenda. The goal of …

Science writers commonly use extended metaphors to communicate unfamiliar concepts in
a more accessible way to a wider audience. However, creating metaphors for science …

This report summarizes the objectives and evaluation of the SemEval 2015 task on the
sentiment analysis of figurative language on Twitter (Task 11). This is the first sentiment …

Creative writing, from poetry to journalism, is at the crux of human ingenuity and social
interaction. Existing creative writing support tools produce entire passages or fully formed …

The literary imagination may take flight on the wings of metaphor, but hard-headed scientists
are just as likely as doe-eyed poets to reach for a metaphor when the descriptive need …

Analogies inspire creative solutions to problems, and facilitate the creative expression of
ideas and the explanation of complex concepts. They have widespread applications in …

The frequent usage of figurative language on online social networks, especially on Twitter,
has the potential to mislead traditional sentiment analysis and recommender systems. Due …

Automatic processing of metaphors can be explicitly divided into two subtasks: recognition
and interpretation. This paper presents an approach to recognize nominal metaphorical …

We introduce a system for generating novel recipes and use that context to examine some
current theoretical ideas for computational creativity. Specifically, we have found that the …