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Neurocognitive Approach to Creativity in the Domain of Word-Invention

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Advances in Neuro-Information Processing (ICONIP 2008)

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One of the simplest creative act is the invention of a new word that captures some characteristics of objects or processes, for example industrial or software products, activity of companies, or the main topic of web pages. Neurocognitive mechanisms responsible for this process are partially understood and in a simplified form may be implemented in a computational model. An algorithm based on such inspirations is described and tested, generating many interesting novel names associated with a set of keywords.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Poland

    Maciej Pilichowski

  2. Department of Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Google: W. Duch, Toruń, Poland

    Włodzisław Duch

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  1. Network Design and Research Center, Kyushu Institute of Technology,, 680-4, Kawazu, Iizuka,, 820-8502, Fukuoka, Japan

    Mario Köppen

  2. Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI), School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 350 Queen Street, 10110, Auckland, New Zealand

    Nikola Kasabov

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Robotics Laboratory, Auckland University of Technology, 38 Princes Street,, 1142, Auckland, New Zealand

    George Coghill

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Pilichowski, M., Duch, W. (2009). Neurocognitive Approach to Creativity in the Domain of Word-Invention. In: Köppen, M., Kasabov, N., Coghill, G. (eds) Advances in Neuro-Information Processing. ICONIP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5507. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03040-6_11

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