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CATEGORIES:NLIP Seminar Series
SUMMARY:Game of Tropes: Exploring the Placebo Effect in Co
 mputational Creativity - Tony Veale\, University C
 ollege Dublin
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151007T160000
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UID:TALK61257AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/61257
DESCRIPTION:Twitter has proven itself a rich and varied source
  of language data for linguistic analysis. For Twi
 tter is more than a popular new channel for social
  interaction in language\; in many ways it constit
 utes a whole new genre of text\, as users adapt to
  its new limitations (140 character messages) and 
 to its novel conventions such as retweeting and ha
 sh-tagging. But Twitter presents an opportunity of
  another kind to computationally-minded researcher
 s of language\, a generative opportunity to study 
 how algorithmic systems might exploit linguistic t
 ropes to compose novel\, concise and re-tweetable 
 texts of their own. In this talk I present an eval
 uation of one such system\, a Twitterbot named @Me
 taphorMagnet that packages its own metaphors\, min
 i-narratives and ironic observations as pithy twee
 ts. Moreover\, I shall use @MetaphorMagnet\, and t
 he idea of Twitterbots more generally\, to explore
  the relationship of linguistic containers to thei
 r contents\, to understand the extent to which hum
 an readers fill these containers with their own me
 anings\, to see meaning in the outputs of generati
 ve systems where none was ever intended. I will pr
 esent an evaluation of this "placebo" effect by as
 king human raters to judge the comprehensibility\,
  novelty and aptness of texts tweeted by simple an
 d sophisticated Twitterbots.
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory
CONTACT:Tamara Polajnar
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