Inproceedings,
Fabricating Monsters is Hard - Towards the Automation of Conceptual Blending
Proc. of Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence (C3GI at ECAI-14), Prague, 2014, (2014)
Abstract
The theory of conceptual blending has been applied
very successfully in cognitive science to explain the process of concept generation. In previous work, we have shown a formalisation
and implementation of conceptual blending that is borrowing techniques from logic, ontological engineering, and algebraic specification. However, so far our attempts (and similar approaches in the
literature) have been reconstructive; that is they show how a particular concept (e.g., houseboat) can be `discovered' by computationally
blending two carefully selected input spaces (e.g, a house and a boat)
and a suitable base. This paper describes an attempt to take the next
step and automate the concept generation based on a database of input spaces. Particularly, we attempt to create monsters from a library
of animals formalised as OWL ontologies.
