What if a fish got drunk? exploring the plausibility of machine-generated fictions

Maria Teresa Llano, Christian Guckelsberger, Rose Hepworth, Jeremy Gow, Joseph Corneli, Simon Colton

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Abstract

Within the WHIM project, we study fictional ideation: processes for automatically inventing, assessing and presenting fictional ideas. Here we examine the foundational notion of the plausibility of fictional ideas, by performing an empirical study to surface the factors that affect judgements of plausibility. Our long term aim is to formalise a computational method which captures some intuitive notions of plausibility and can predict how certain types of people will assess the plausibility of certain types of fictional ideas. This paper constitutes a first firm step towards this aim.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the ICCC 2016, Paris, 27 June - 1 July
Subtitle of host publication7th International Conference on Computational Creativity
EditorsFrancois Pachet, Amilcar Cardoso, Vincent Corruble, Fiammetta Ghedini
Place of PublicationParis France
PublisherSony CSL
Pages213-220
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9782746691551
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Computational Creativity 2016 - Paris, France
Duration: 27 Jun 20161 Jul 2016
Conference number: 7th
http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2016/ (Conference Website)
http://www.computationalcreativity.net/iccc2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Proceedings_ICCC16.pdf (Proceedings)

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Computational Creativity 2016
Abbreviated titleICCC 2016
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period27/06/161/07/16
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