Computational Aesthetics:
Artificial Intelligence Approaches
to Beauty and Happiness
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Technical Report WS-06-04
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WS-06-04
Computational Aesthetics:
Artificial Intelligence Approaches to
Beauty and Happiness
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Hugo Liu and Rada Mihalcea, Cochairs
Technical Report WS-06-04
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Organizing Committee
Hugo Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cochair)
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas (Cochair)
Program Committee
Elisabeth Andre, Augsburg University, Germany
Joyce Chai, Michigan State University
Timothy Chklovski, USC / Information Sciences Institute
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Glorianna Davenport, MIT Media Laboratory
Pieter Desmet, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Pablo Gervas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Gary Greenfield, University of Richmond
Gregory Grefenstette, CEA, France
Jeffrey Huang, Harvard University / Graduate School of Design
Lewis Johnson, USC / Information Sciences Institute
Joseph Kaye, Cornell University
Max Kazemzadeh, University of North Texas
Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Laboratory
Penousal Machado, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
Bill Manaris, College of Charleston
Nick Montfort, University of Pennsylvania
Erik Mueller, IBM Research
Nicolas Nicolov, Umbria Inc.
Ian Parberry, University of North Texas
Warren Sack, University of California Santa Cruz
Franco Salvetti, University of Colorado at Boulder and Umbria Inc.
Marc Schroeder, DFKI, Germany
Push Singh, MIT Media Laboratory
Ramesh Srinivasan, University of California Los Angeles
Carlo Strapparava, Istituto di Ricerca Scientifica Trento, Italy
This AAAI–06 Workshop was held July 16, 2006,
in Boston, Massachusetts USA
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Contents
Preface / vii
Bringing the Text to Life Automatically / 1
Carlo Strapparava and Alessandro Valitutti
A Computational Model of Narrative Generation for Suspense / 8
Yun-Gyung Cheong and R. Michael Young
Computing the Aesthetics of Chess / 16
Azlan Iqbal
Identification of Lifestyle Behavior Patterns with
Prediction of the Happiness of an Inhabitant in a Smart Home / 23
Vikramaditya R. Jakkula, G. Michael Youngblood, and Diane J. Cook
Memex Music and Gambling Games: EVE's Take on Lucky Number 13 / 30
Kevin Burns and Shlomo Dubnov
A Multiagent Text Generator with Simple Rhetorical Habilities / 37
Francisco C. Pereira, Raquel Hervás, Pablo Gervás, and Amilcar Cardoso
Natural Language Generation and Narrative
Variation in Interactive Fiction / 45
Nick Montfort
The Role of Abduction in Automatic Storytelling / 53
Rafael Pérez y Pérez and Atocha Aliseda
Walking Blues Changes Undersea: Imaginative Narrative in
Interactive Poetry Generation with the GRIOT System / 61
D. Fox Harrell
Automatic Dream Sentiment Analysis / 70
David Nadeau, Catherine Sabourin, Joseph De Koninck, Stan Matwin, and Peter D. Turney
Bayesian Beauty: On the ART of EVE’ and the Act of Enjoyment / 74
Kevin Burns
ColorCocktail: An Ontology-Based Recommender System / 79
Yu-Hsin Chen, Ting-hsiang Huang, David Chawei Hsu, and Jane Yung-jen Hsu
Detecting Laughter: Towards Building a Humorous Machine / 83
Narsimh Kamath
Exploring the Compositionality of Emotions in Text:
Word Emotions, Sentence Emotions and Automated Tagging / 87
Virginia Francisco and Pablo Gervás
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An Initiation Rite for Intelligent Machinery / 91
Orkan Telhan
LyQ - An Emotion-aware Music Player / 95
David Chawei Hsu and Jane Yung-jen Hsu
Painting as a Thinking Machine / 99
Simon Ingram
A Reconstructed Neo-Aristotelian Theory of Interactive Drama / 103
Zach Tomaszewski and Kim Binsted
Saurus: An Emotionally-Weighted Thesaurus / 107
Jim Gouldstone, Hugo Liu, Henry Lieberman, and Hiroshi Ishii