Editors:
- Presents a unified approach to creativity by bridging computer science, linguistic and mathematical physics
- Provides a unique and novel perspective
- Written by experts in the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis (LECTMORPH)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book collects research contributions concerning quantitative approaches to characterize originality and universality in language. The target audience comprises researchers and experts in the field but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.
Creativity might be considered as a morphogenetic process combining universal features with originality. While quantitative methods applied to text and music reveal universal features of language and music, originality is a highly appreciated feature of authors, composers, and performers.
In this framework, the different methods of traditional problems of authorship attribution and document classification provide important insights on how to quantify the unique features of authors, composers, and styles. Such unique features contrast, and are restricted by, universal signatures, such as scaling laws in word-frequency distribution, entropy measures, long-range correlations, among others. This interplay between innovation and universality is also an essential ingredient of methods for automatic text generation.Innovation in language becomes relevant when it is imitated and spread to other speakers and musicians. Modern digital databases provide new opportunities to characterize and model the creation and evolution of linguistic innovations on historical time scales, a particularly important example of the more general problem of spreading of innovations in complex social systems.
This multidisciplinary book combines scientists from various different backgrounds interested in quantitative analysis of variations (synchronic and diachronic) in language and music. The aim is to obtain a deeper understanding of how originality emerges, can be quantified, and propagates.Reviews
“The volume as a whole gives a richly detailed overview of the long-term, flourishing research on the mathematical statistical approach to properties of written natural language. The chapters and the references provide details of this inventive investigation of the inherent and variable properties of natural language.” (Alice Davison, Computing Reviews, computingreviews.com, October, 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
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Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Mirko Degli Esposti
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the Physics of Complex Systems, Max Planck Institute for, Dresden, Germany
Eduardo G. Altmann
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Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France
François Pachet
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Creativity and Universality in Language
Editors: Mirko Degli Esposti, Eduardo G. Altmann, François Pachet
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24403-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24401-3Published: 27 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79621-5Published: 26 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24403-7Published: 18 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2195-1934
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 208
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Philosophy of Language, Music, Complex Systems