• 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

Sardonicus is a simile-finder that knows the exemplary properties of different objects in the real world. It has acquired this knowledge by sifting the contents of the web in search of meaningful comparisons. It knows that ninjas are stealthy and that bowling balls are heavy and smooth enough to be called bald. It also has a healthy sense of irony, so it knows that roller-coasters are not exactly a model of consistency, and that turtles are not generally prized for their speed. The similes in Sardonicus are divided into straight-faced "factual" similes and tongue-in-cheek "ironic" similes, and are organized hierarchically using a taxonomy of adjectives. Try it now, it might put an ironic smile on your face.