AISB Symposium
Style in text: creative generation and identification of authorship
In conjunction with the 2008 AISB Convention
Date:
3 April 2008
Location:
Aberdeen, Scotland
Overview
This symposium aims to draw together researchers from two areas that have recently received attention: creative computing and forensic computational linguistics. We wish to foster interchange of experience and ideas from researchers interested in automated generation of text under various stylistic constraints, and researchers interested in identifying the authorship, origin or style of given texts. This can be viewed as two sides of a coin: creative generation or production of text; and identification of specific creative or distinctive factors.
We hope to attract participants from diverse areas, including but not limited to: computational linguistics, computer creativity, forensic linguistics, natural language generation, computers and law, statistical approaches in computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, script and multimedia production, and literature.
Theoretical positions, practical implementations, and discussion papers are all welcomed.
Topics
Some possible topics might include:
- common statistical models for style generation & recognition
- user perceptions of computer-created linguistic artefacts
- creativity & stylistics: evaluation metrics
- matching tone-of-voice to communicative objectives
- personalisation & text style
- the use and role of particular linguistic constructs in determining authorship
- creating distinctive voices
- distinguishing human and computer generated texts
- user modelling to select register, terminology etc.
- style and cognition, issues of "difficulty" in texts
We do, of course, welcome topics that are not in the above list but are related to the stylistic aspects of text in other ways that we have not envisaged. This is a new symposium and we would like it to be varied and innovative, yet coherent about this interesting focus.
Paper length and format
AISB recommends the use of the ECAI style, and you can download templates and examples for use. We require papers to be submitted in this format for review, with a maximum page length of 8 pages.
Important Dates
These dates are linked to the constraints of the AISB conference:
Extended Deadline:
1 February 2008Notification of Acceptance:
22 February 2008Camera Ready Due:
TBASymposium:
3 April 2008Publication
All papers from the AISB convention will be published in the AISB proceedings, with an ISBN number.
If the symposium attracts sufficient interest, we would propose a special journal issue, such as Literary and Linguistic Computing, or another appropriate journal. We would decide on a target journal once we have a clearer idea of the topics that participants would be submitting.
Programme Committee
- Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
- Alexander Holt, Natural History Museum, London, UK
- Rodger Kibble, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
- Richard Power, The Open University, UK
- Sarah Rauchas, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
- Elizabeth Reeder, Glasgow University, UK
- Graeme Ritchie, University of Aberdeen, UK
- Maite Taboada, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Carl Vogel, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Geraint Wiggins, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
- Robert Zimmer, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Symposium Chairs
Rodger Kibble, Sarah RauchasWebsite adapted from a design by Andreas Viklund.