[Corpora-List] Autumn School on Computational Creativity

[Alessandro Valitutti]

Advance announcement

AUTUMN SCHOOL ON COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/ascc

7-11 November 2011
Helsinki region, Finland

The University of Helsinki (together with Hecse and HIIT) will organize an
international autumn school on computational creativity. We cordially
invite PhD and MSc students and researchers who are interested in being
introduced to various aspects of computational creativity by experts in the
field. Previous experience of the field is not needed. We target audience
that has background in computing, but we also welcome participants from
other related disciplines.

The goal of computational creativity is to model, simulate or enhance
creativity using computers. Different subfields of computational creativity
include linguistic, musical and visual creativity, producing creative
artifacts such as jokes, paintings, or musical pieces.

The autumn school covers computational creativity from the above mentioned
three three angles. It focuses on several specific topics, provisionally
including:
* Linguistic creativity: computational humor (e.g. the use of computer to
generate, recognize and model humor), automatic generation of metaphors,
creative text mining.
* Visual Creativity: automated painting and creative transformation of
images.
* Musical Creativity: aided musical composition, automatic recognition of
musical patterns.

Other topics will cross the above classification, for example the re-use of
existing information or the unusual application of AI techniques such as
machine learning.

We are proud to announce that leading researchers in the field will lecture
in the autumn school:
* Simon Colton, Imperial College, UK
* Graeme Ritchie, University of Aberdeen, UK
* Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
* Paulo Urbano, University of Lisbon, Portugal
* Tony Veale, University College Dublin, Ireland
Additional lecturers may still be invited to lecture in the autumn school.

The autumn school is funded by Hecse, a Finnish doctoral programme in
computer science. Since Hecse will cover the costs of the autumn school
programme and organization, registration to the school is free of charge.
Participants only pay for their accommodation and meals (and possibly for
social programme). (For members of Hecse, all expenses will be covered by
Hecse.)

Registration to the event is open at
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/29404/lomake.html

In case the number of seats have to be limited, first registrations have
priority.

The venue is not decided yet, but the school will be located in the
Helsinki region. Details will be added to the autumn school web page as
soon as possible.

Contact:

Hannu Toivonen (hannu.toivonen at cs.helsinki.fi)
Alessandro Valitutti (alessandro.valitutti at cs.helsinki.fi)

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/ascc

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