Name: Computational Literature: How Can a Computer Generate Literary Text?
Start: 2017-06-14T04:00:00-07:00
End: 2017-06-14T05:00:00-07:00
Location: 11th floor large conference room

Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Computational Literature: How Can a Computer Generate Literary Text?

When

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT

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Presenter

Presented by:

Eran Hadas

Location

11th floor large conference room

This event is open to:

Everyone

Event Details

This talk will provide an introduction to Computational literature as an intersection between Natural Language Processing and Computational (Artificial) Creativity. It will feature examples of computer-generated texts, and showcase some rule-based, statistical and neural network based techniques.

Speaker Bio

Eran Hadas is an Israeli poet, software developer, and new media artist, the author of seven books. He creates hypermedia poetry and develops software-based poetry generators. Among his collaborative projects are a headset that generates poems from brainwaves, and a documentarian robot that interviews people about the meaning of being human. Hadas is a visiting scholar at Caltech, where he is teaching Computational Literature.

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