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Vocabulary a week: #2 - Friday, October 20

dayre — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:07:24 -0700

For the next few months, we will be publishing small sets of customized vocabularies based on popular news items. The vocabularies will feature a set of new words which (fingers crossed) have never before existed in the common vocabulary known as the English language.

The vocabulary words and accompanying definitions are computer generated using a multi-step definition generator. Output of the generator will be enhanced and tweaked over time as new theories are tested and new ideas come to light. More information on the GTR Dictionary Project can be found here : GTR Dictionary Project.

Vocabulary a week: #1 - Friday, October 13

dayre — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:48:32 -0700

A web browser for experimental writers ?

dayre — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:21:18 -0700

With the release of the open source Firefox browser, numerous spin off projects have been launched building off the core Firefox browsing functionality. Two of the more interesting offshoots are Flock and Songbird.

Flock advertises itself as a "social browser" because of its built in support for many social networking services such as Flickr, Del.icio.us, Technorati and others. Songbird describes itself as a mishmash digital jukebox, web browser and media player with some interesting features for "playing the web".

Google N-gram data released

dayre — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:00:41 -0700

Fun times all around ! Google has finally released "version 1" of their N-gram word data sets through the Linguistic Data Consortium. For $150 US, you too can own the following on a 6 DVD set:

File sizes: approx. 24 GB compressed (gzip'ed) text files



Number of tokens:    1,024,908,267,229
Number of sentences:    95,119,665,584
Number of unigrams:         13,588,391
Number of bigrams:         314,843,401
Number of trigrams:        977,069,902
Number of fourgrams:     1,313,818,354
Number of fivegrams:     1,176,470,663

Google Research releasing N-gram data

dayre — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:35:26 -0700

Google Research announced today that they will be releasing their N-gram data to the public. N-gram models are a type of statistical model used to predict the occurance likelihood of the next item in a sequence, in this case, the items are words. N-gram models are used in a number of computational linguistics tasks like translation, part of speech tagging and word sense disambiguation.

Why ALG is hard: interdisciplinarity

dayre — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:29:19 -0700

Over at Jim Carpenter's blog, he has a series building on why aesthetic language generation (ALG) is difficult. There are plenty of discussions on the nature of working with aesthetic text generation systems from a writer/reader perspective, but very little on the challenges and questions raised in the actual construction of these systems (outside of the purely technical discussions within fields like Computational Linguistics). Jim has constructed a large scale electronic text composition system entitled "Erica T. Carter" and knows first hand the issues involved. Anyone interested in this area should keep an eye on his posts.

Publications

dayre — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:41:50 -0700

The purpose of this publications library is to archive publications, or links to websites hosting publications, related to the intersection of computer technology and writing.

This would include publications from various fields of language related computing: Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Humanities Computing, Computer Poetry etc. GTR claims no rights or ownership to these works, copyright is held by the respective author.

analysis
computer poetry
frameworks
history
literary
machine translation
modelling
morphology
narrative
NLG (Natural Language Generation)
NLP (Natural Language Processing)

parsing
readings
segmentation
semantics
stylistics
summarization
tagging
theory
visualization

analysis

Multilingual Algorithms for Literary Text Analysis (MALTA) (1989?)
Authors: Paul Braffort, Josiane Joncquel (members of the ALAMO group)
Visiting scholars, University of Chicago
Visit website
Literalgorithmics: Wanderings in Linguistic and Literary Text Analysis (1989)
Authors: Paul Braffort (ALAMO)
internal ALAMO report
Visit website
What is text analysis, really? (2003)
Authors: Geoffrey Rockwell
Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2003, p. 209-219.
download [252.43 KB]
Segmenting Natural Language by Articulatory Features (1967)
Authors: David Shillan
Cambridge Language Research Unit
download [457.11 KB]
About TextTiling
Authors: Marti Hearst
Visit website
Seeing the Text Through the Trees: Visualization and Interactivity in the Text Applications (1999)
Authors: Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell, John Bradley and Patricia Monger
Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 14, no. 1, 1999, p. 115-130.
download [295.14 KB]
Discrimination of Authoship using Visualization (1994)
Authors: Bradley Kjell, W. Addison Woods, Ophir Fieder
Information Processing and Management, Volume 30, Number 1, 1994
download [346.43 KB]

computer poetry

A Flexible Integrated Architecture For Generating Poetic Texts (2000)
Authors: Hisar Manurung, Graeme Ritchie, Henry Thompson
In Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP 2000), Chiang Mai, Thailand 10-12 May 2000
download [182.19 KB]
Towards A Computational Model of Poetry Generation (2000)
Authors: Hisar Maruli Manurung, Graeme Ritchie, Henry Thompson
Informatics Research Report EDI-INF-RR-0015
download [72.24 KB]
Linguistic Creativity at Different Levels of Decision in Sentence Production (2002)
Authors: Pablo Gervás
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
download [161.53 KB]
Modeling Literary Style for Semi-Automatic Generation of Poetry (2001)
Authors: Pablo Gervás
Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Programación, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
download [21.73 KB]
Exploring Quantitative Evaluations of the Creativity of Automatic Poets (2002)
Authors: Pablo Gervás
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
download [66.55 KB]
Principles and Processes of Generative Literature: Questions to Literature (2005)
Authors: Jean-Pierre Balpe
dichtung-digital - journal für digitale ästhetik
Visit website
Literalgorithmics: Wanderings in Linguistic and Literary Text Analysis (1989)
Authors: Paul Braffort (ALAMO)
internal ALAMO report
Visit website
French e-poetry: A short/long story (2002)
Authors: Patrick-Henri Burgaud
dichtung-digital - journal für digitale ästhetik
Visit website
Producing Computer Poetry (1977)
Authors: Margaret Chisman
The Best of Creative Computing Volume 2
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Writers and Computers: An Interview With Carol Spearin McCauley (1977)
Authors: Cathy Silverstein
The Best of Creative Computing Volume 2
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Haiku Generator (1977)
Authors: Paul J. Emmerich
The Best of Creative Computing Volume 2
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COMPUTER POETRY (1992)
Authors: M. Vincent van Mechelen
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Gnoetry: interview with Eric Elshtain (2006)
Authors: Christy Dena
WRT: Writer Response Theory
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The WASP Poetry Generation System (2005)
Authors: Pablo Gervás
Visit website
Reading Processes: Hartman’s Virtual Muse (2005)
Authors: Noah Wardrip-Fruin
http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu
Visit website
TEAnO, an Organization for the Application of Computers to Art Production (1996)
Authors: P. Ferrara - Etnoteam spa, TEAnO
TEAnO
download [179.55 KB]
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Digital Poetry Timeline (2003)
Authors: Christopher T. Funkhouser
http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous
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Poetry Digital Media and Cybertext (2004)
Authors: Christopher T. Funkhouser
http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous
download [1.12 MB]
An Evolutionary Algorithm Approach to Poetry Generation (2003)
Authors: Hisar Maruli Manurung
Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
download [2.11 MB]
TCR September Launch Party
download [162.99 KB]

frameworks

A Flexible Integrated Architecture For Generating Poetic Texts (2000)
Authors: Hisar Manurung, Graeme Ritchie, Henry Thompson
In Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP 2000), Chiang Mai, Thailand 10-12 May 2000
download [182.19 KB]
Building Applied Natural Language Generation Systems (1997)
Authors: Ehud Reiter and Robert Dale
Journal of Natural Language Engineering ,
download [382.44 KB]
TIPSTER Text Phase III : TIPSTER Text Architecture Design - (Version 3.1 7) (1998)
Authors: Ralph Grishman and the TIPSTER Phase III Contractors.
download [263.42 KB]
TIPSTER Text Phase III : Configuration Management Plan (Version 1.3, 25) (1997)
Authors: Architecture Committee for the TIPSTER Text Phase III Program
download [124.14 KB]
TIPSTER Text Phase II : Architecture Requirements - (Version 2.0.1 27) (1996)
Authors: Architecture Committee for the TIPSTER Text Phase II Program
download [173.15 KB]
TIPSTER Text Phase II : Architecture Concept - (Version 1.1.2 27) (1996)
Authors: Architecture Committee for the TIPSTER Text Phase II Program
download [143.69 KB]
Modeling Literary Style for Semi-Automatic Generation of Poetry (2001)
Authors: Pablo Gervás
Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Programación, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
download [21.73 KB]
Multilingual Algorithms for Literary Text Analysis (MALTA) (1989?)
Authors: Paul Braffort, Josiane Joncquel (members of the ALAMO group)
Visiting scholars, University of Chicago
Visit website
Literalgorithmics: Wanderings in Linguistic and Literary Text Analysis (1989)
Authors: Paul Braffort (ALAMO)
internal ALAMO report
Visit website
Gnoetry: interview with Eric Elshtain (2006)
Authors: Christy Dena
WRT: Writer Response Theory
Visit website
The WASP Poetry Generation System (2005)
Authors: Pablo Gervás
Visit website
Seeing the Text Through the Trees: Visualization and Interactivity in the Text Applications (1999)
Authors: Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell, John Bradley and Patricia Monger
Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 14, no. 1, 1999, p. 115-130.
download [295.14 KB]
FROGS: A Framework for Developing Natural Language Generation Software (2005)
Authors: Pablo Gervás, Raquel Hervás Ballesteros, Carlos García Ibáñez and Miguel Ancochea Nodal
Visit website

history

Natural Language Processing: a historical review (2001)
Authors: Karen Sparck Jones
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
download [402.71 KB]
Machine Translation at the Cambridge Language Research Unit 1956-1967 (1986)
Authors: John Hutchins
Machine translation: past, present, future
download [175.95 KB]
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Digital Poetry Timeline (2003)
Authors: Christopher T. Funkhouser
http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous
Visit website
Poetry Digital Media and Cybertext (2004)
Authors: Christopher T. Funkhouser
http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous
download [1.12 MB]
Interactive Reading, Early Modern Texts and Hypertext: A Lesson from the Past
Authors: Tatjana Chorney
http://www.academiccommons.org
Visit website

literary

TCR September Launch Party
download [162.99 KB]

machine translation

Machine Translation at the Cambridge Language Research Unit 1956-1967 (1986)
Authors: John Hutchins
Machine translation: past, present, future
download [175.95 KB]
Visit website

modelling

Machine humour: An implemented model of puns (1996)
Authors: Kim Binsted
Ph.D. University of Edinburgh
download [973.28 KB]
Linguistic Creativity at Different Levels of Decision in Sentence Production (2002)
Authors: Pablo Gervás
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
download [161.53 KB]
Exploring Quantitative Evaluations of the Creativity of Automatic Poets (2002)
Authors: Pablo Gervás
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
download [66.55 KB]
Computer Understanding of Conventional Metaphoric Language (1992)
Authors: James H. Martin
University of California, Berkely
download [349.28 KB]
Modelling: a study in words and meanings (2003)
Authors: Willard McCarty
King’s College London
download [293.82 KB]
Computational Modelling of Linguistic Humour: Tom Swifties (1992)
Authors: Greg Lessard and Michael Levison
ALLC/ACH Conference, 1992, Oxford
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A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948)
Authors: Claude E. Shannon
Bell System Technical Journal
download [357.71 KB]
Context as Spurious Concept (1997)
Authors: Graeme Hirst
AAAI Fall Symposium on Context in Knowledge Representation and Natural Language, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997
download [70.82 KB]
Semantic Networks
Authors: John F. Sowa
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morphology

An Algorithmic Approach to English Pluralization
Authors: Damian Conway
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia
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Morphological Parsing with a Unification-based Word Grammar (PC-KIMMO) (1994)
Authors: Evan L. Antworth
North Texas Natural Language Processing Workshop
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A Simpler, Intuitive Approach to Morpheme Induction (2005)
Authors: Samarth Keshava and Emily Pitler
MorphoChallenge 2005, http://www.cis.hut.fi/morphochallenge2005/
download [105.45 KB]
Computational Morphology (A handbook)
Authors: Harald Trost
Das Institut für Medizinische Kybernetik und Artificial Intelligence (IMKAI)
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Morphological Analysis (1973)
Authors: Martin Kay
Computational And Mathematical Linguistics: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics
download [854.16 KB]

narrative

Narrative Prose Generation (2001)
Authors: Charles Callaway and James Lester
In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, WA,
download [542.19 KB]
Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative (2005)
Authors: Manfred Jahn
English Department, University of Cologne
download [496.33 KB]
Visit website

NLG (Natural Language Generation)

A Flexible Integrated Architecture For Generating Poetic Texts (2000)
Authors: Hisar Manurung, Graeme Ritchie, Henry Thompson
In Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP 2000), Chiang Mai, Thailand 10-12 May 2000
download [182.19 KB]
Towards A Computational Model of Poetry Generation (2000)
Authors: Hisar Maruli Manurung, Graeme Ritchie, Henry Thompson
Informatics Research Report EDI-INF-RR-0015
download [72.24 KB]
Narrative Prose Generation (2001)
Authors: Charles Callaway and James Lester
In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, WA,
download [542.19 KB]
Building Applied Natural Language Generation Systems (1997)
Authors: Ehud Reiter and Robert Dale
Journal of Natural Language Engineering ,
download [382.44 KB]
The Practical Value of n-grams in generation (1998)
Authors: Langkilde, I. and Knight,K
In Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Workshop (INLG), Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.
download [166.52 KB]
Linguistic Creativity at Different Levels of Decision in Sentence Production (2002)
Authors: Pablo Gervás
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
download [161.53 KB]
Modeling Literary Style for Semi-Automatic Generation of Poetry (2001)
Authors: Pablo Gervás
Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Programación, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
download [21.73 KB]
Exploring Quantitative Evaluations of the Creativity of Automatic Poets (2002)
Authors: Pablo Gervás
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
download [66.55 KB]
Principles and Processes of Generative Literature: Questions to Literature (2005)
Authors: Jean-Pierre Balpe
dichtung-digital - journal für digitale ästhetik
Visit website
Literalgorithmics: Wanderings in Linguistic and Literary Text Analysis (1989)
Authors: Paul Braffort (ALAMO)
internal ALAMO report
Visit website
The WASP Poetry Generation System (2005)
Authors: Pablo Gervás
Visit website
Reading Processes: Hartman’s Virtual Muse (2005)
Authors: Noah Wardrip-Fruin
http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu
Visit website
FROGS: A Framework for Developing Natural Language Generation Software (2005)
Authors: Pablo Gervás, Raquel Hervás Ballesteros, Carlos García Ibáñez and Miguel Ancochea Nodal
Visit website
TEAnO, an Organization for the Application of Computers to Art Production (1996)
Authors: P. Ferrara - Etnoteam spa, TEAnO
TEAnO
download [179.55 KB]
Visit website
An Evolutionary Algorithm Approach to Poetry Generation (2003)
Authors: Hisar Maruli Manurung
Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
download [2.11 MB]

NLP (Natural Language Processing)

Natural Language Processing: a historical review (2001)
Authors: Karen Sparck Jones
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
download [402.71 KB]
Language Processing and the Thesaurus (1997)
Authors: Yorick Wilks
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick
download [48.85 KB]

parsing

A Perl program for sentence splitting using rules (2001)
Authors: Paul Clough
University of Sheffield
download [614.24 KB]
What is a word, What is a sentence? Problems of Tokenization (1994)
Authors: Gregory Grefenstette, Pasi Tapanainen
Rank Xerox Research Centre Grenoble Laboratory
download [205.95 KB]

readings

TCR September Launch Party
download [162.99 KB]

segmentation

TextTiling: A Quantitative Approach to Discourse Segmentation (1993 )
Authors: Marti A. Hearst
Technical Report UCB:S2K-93-24
download [80.98 KB]
A Perl program for sentence splitting using rules (2001)
Authors: Paul Clough
University of Sheffield
download [614.24 KB]
What is a word, What is a sentence? Problems of Tokenization (1994)
Authors: Gregory Grefenstette, Pasi Tapanainen
Rank Xerox Research Centre Grenoble Laboratory
download [205.95 KB]
Segmenting Natural Language by Articulatory Features (1967)
Authors: David Shillan
Cambridge Language Research Unit
download [457.11 KB]
About TextTiling
Authors: Marti Hearst
Visit website

semantics

Semantic Networks
Authors: John F. Sowa
Visit website
Language Processing and the Thesaurus (1997)
Authors: Yorick Wilks
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick
download [48.85 KB]

stylistics

Analysing Style - Readability (2000)
Authors: Paul Clough
METER Corpus Experiments
download [85.47 KB]
Modeling Literary Style for Semi-Automatic Generation of Poetry (2001)
Authors: Pablo Gervás
Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Programación, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
download [21.73 KB]
Exploring Quantitative Evaluations of the Creativity of Automatic Poets (2002)
Authors: Pablo Gervás
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
download [66.55 KB]
Discrimination of Authoship using Visualization (1994)
Authors: Bradley Kjell, W. Addison Woods, Ophir Fieder
Information Processing and Management, Volume 30, Number 1, 1994
download [346.43 KB]
Minnesota Contextual Content Analysis system (2001)
Authors: Ken Litkowski and Don McTavish
Visit website
Style vs. Expression in Literary Narratives (2005)
Authors: Uzuner, Ö., Katz, B.
Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2005)
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summarization

Statistics-Based Summarization Step One: Sentence Compression (2000)
Authors: Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu
AAAI/IAAI.
download [200.19 KB]
Producing Intelligent Telegraphic Text Reduction to Provide an Audio Scanning Service for the Blind (1998)
Authors: Gregory Grefenstette
AAAI Spring Symposium
download [145.29 KB]
TextTiling: A Quantitative Approach to Discourse Segmentation (1993 )
Authors: Marti A. Hearst
Technical Report UCB:S2K-93-24
download [80.98 KB]

tagging

A Simple Rule-Based Part Of Speech Tagger (1992)
Authors: Eric Brill
Proceedings of ANLP-92, 3rd Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing
download [152.21 KB]
Transformation-Based Error-Driven Learning and Natural Language Processing: A Case Study in Part of Speech Tagging (1995)
Authors: Eric Brill.
Computational Linguistics
download [274 KB]
Deterministic Part-of-Speech Tagging with Finite State Transducers (1995)
Authors: Emmanuel Roche, Yves Schabes
Computational Linguistics
download [380.29 KB]
Building a large annotated corpus of English: the Penn Treebank (1993)
Authors: Mitchell P. Marcus, Beatrice Santorini, Mary Ann Marcinkiewicz
University of Pennsylvania
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theory

Principles and Processes of Generative Literature: Questions to Literature (2005)
Authors: Jean-Pierre Balpe
dichtung-digital - journal für digitale ästhetik
Visit website
Multilingual Algorithms for Literary Text Analysis (MALTA) (1989?)
Authors: Paul Braffort, Josiane Joncquel (members of the ALAMO group)
Visiting scholars, University of Chicago
Visit website
Literalgorithmics: Wanderings in Linguistic and Literary Text Analysis (1989)
Authors: Paul Braffort (ALAMO)
internal ALAMO report
Visit website
French e-poetry: A short/long story (2002)
Authors: Patrick-Henri Burgaud
dichtung-digital - journal für digitale ästhetik
Visit website
COMPUTER POETRY (1992)
Authors: M. Vincent van Mechelen
Visit website
Modelling: a study in words and meanings (2003)
Authors: Willard McCarty
King’s College London
download [293.82 KB]
What is text analysis, really? (2003)
Authors: Geoffrey Rockwell
Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2003, p. 209-219.
download [252.43 KB]
A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948)
Authors: Claude E. Shannon
Bell System Technical Journal
download [357.71 KB]
Poetry Digital Media and Cybertext (2004)
Authors: Christopher T. Funkhouser
http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous
download [1.12 MB]
Context as Spurious Concept (1997)
Authors: Graeme Hirst
AAAI Fall Symposium on Context in Knowledge Representation and Natural Language, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997
download [70.82 KB]
Interactive Reading, Early Modern Texts and Hypertext: A Lesson from the Past
Authors: Tatjana Chorney
http://www.academiccommons.org
Visit website
Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative (2005)
Authors: Manfred Jahn
English Department, University of Cologne
download [496.33 KB]
Visit website

visualization

Seeing the Text Through the Trees: Visualization and Interactivity in the Text Applications (1999)
Authors: Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell, John Bradley and Patricia Monger
Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 14, no. 1, 1999, p. 115-130.
download [295.14 KB]