• Read a review of Tony Veale's new book on Linguistic Creativity in the Dublin Review of Books.
• Download a sample chapter from Tony Veale's new book, Exploding the Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity from Bloomsbury Academic (and Amazon, of course), available Sept. 27.
• Listen to an interview with Tony Veale about his new book on computational creativity, Exploding the Creativity Myth, on the New Books in Language blog.
• Read a recent newspaper article on our approach to irony and humor in the Irish Times
• We are running the 3rd ICCC conference on Computational Creativity at UCD on May 31st -- June 1st, 2012. You can check out the program and download the papers here:
• Article on The Art of Eloquence with a side-bar on Metaphor Generation in the French magazine Le Monde d'Intelligence
• Article on Artificial Creativity in the Varsity newspaper
• Interview on the Big Picture Science radio show
• Interview on PhilosophyTalk
• ESSLLI'07 Enriched Lexical Ontologies
• The ZeitGeist system for harvesting creative neologisms from Wikipedia (using WordNet) has been reported in New Scientist magazine.
• ESSLLI'05 Course notes on METAPHOR

Research Mission

Publications

• Veale, T. (2013).

  Veale, T. (2013). Humorous Similes. HUMOR: The International Journal of Humor Research, 21(1):3-22. [pdf]

• Veale, T. (2013).

  The Agile Cliché: Using Flexible Stereotypes as Building Blocks in the Construction of an Affective Lexicon. In: Oltramari, A., Vossen, P., Qin, L. & Hovy, E (eds). New Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources. Berlin: Springer: Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing.[pdf]

• Veale, T. (2012).

  Exploding the Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity. London: Bloomsbury Academic. [sample chapter]

• Veale, T. (2012).

  Detecting and Generating Ironic Comparisons: An Application of Creative Information Retrieval. AAAI Fall Symposium Series 2012, Artificial Intelligence of Humor. Arlington, Virginia. [pdf]

• Veale, T. (2012).

  A Context-sensitive, Multi-faceted model of Lexico-Conceptual Affect. In Proc. of ACL’2012, the 50th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Jeju, South Korea. [pdf]

• Veale, T. and Li, G. (2012).

  Specifying Viewpoint and Information Need with Affective Metaphors: A System Demonstration of Metaphor Magnet. In Proc. of ACL’2012, the 50th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Jeju, South Korea. [pdf]

• Veale, T. (2012).

  Seeing the Best and Worst of Everything on the Web with a Two-level, Feature-rich Affect Lexicon. In Proc. of WWW’2012, the 21st World-Wide-Web conference, Lyon, France. [pdf]

• Veale, T. and Hao, Y. (2012).

  In the Mood for Affective Search. In Proc. of WWW’2012, the 21st World-Wide-Web conference, Lyon, France. [pdf]

  More Publications

Group Members

Current Post-graduates

• Scorain Yu, WordNet-based games development, KNOW-BEST project
• Cristina Butnariu, WordNet-based games development, KNOW-BEST project
• Yanfen Hao, WordNet-based games development, KNOW-BEST project
• Stephen Howell, WordNet-based games development, KNOW-BEST project
• ShanShan Chen, Bilingual Ontology, KNOW-BEST project
• Hyesook Kim, Construction of Korean WordNet / HowNet

Past or concluding Post-graduates

• Jer Hayes, Term Creation in Lexical Ontologies
• Nuno Seco, Similarity Measures in Lexical Ontologies

Related Research Groups and International Collaborators

• CHIL: The Creativity, Humor, Imagery and Language research-unit
  at the Department of Linguistics in the University of Leuven, Belgium.

• The Creative Systems Laboratory
  at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.