TAILIEUCHUNG - Báo cáo khoa học: "Exploiting Readymades in Linguistic Creativity: A System Demonstration of the Jigsaw Bard"

Large lexical resources, such as corpora and databases of Web ngrams, are a rich source of pre-fabricated phrases that can be reused in many different contexts. However, one must be careful in how these resources are used, and noted writers such as George Orwell have argued that the use of canned phrases encourages sloppy thinking and results in poor communication. Nonetheless, while Orwell prized home-made phrases over the readymade variety, there is a vibrant movement in modern art which shifts artistic creation from the production of novel artifacts to the clever reuse of readymades or objets trouvés. We describe. | Exploiting Readymades in Linguistic Creativity A System Demonstration of the Jigsaw Bard Tony Veale School of Computer Science and Informatics University College Dublin Belfield Dublin D4 Ireland. Demonstration System can be viewed at Abstract Large lexical resources such as corpora and databases of Web ngrams are a rich source of pre-fabricated phrases that can be reused in many different contexts. However one must be careful in how these resources are used and noted writers such as George Orwell have argued that the use of canned phrases encourages sloppy thinking and results in poor communication. Nonetheless while Orwell prized home-made phrases over the readymade variety there is a vibrant movement in modern art which shifts artistic creation from the production of novel artifacts to the clever reuse of readymades or objets trouvés. We describe here a system that makes creative reuse of the linguistic readymades in the Google ngrams. Our system the Jigsaw Bard thus owes more to Marcel Duchamp than to George Orwell. We demonstrate how textual readymades can be identified and harvested on a large scale and used to drive a modest form of linguistic creativity. 1 Introduction In a much-quoted essay from 1946 entitled Politics and the English Language the writer and thinker George Orwell outlines his prescription for halting a perceived decline in the English language. He argues that language and thought form a tight 14 Yanfen Hao School of Computer Science and Informatics University College Dublin Belfield Dublin D4 Ireland. http jigsaw feedback cycle that can be either virtuous or vicious. Lazy language can thus promote lazy thinking and vice versa. Orwell pours scorn on two particular forms of lazy language the expedient use of overly familiar metaphors merely because they come quickly to mind even though they have lost their power to evoke vivid images and the use of readymade turns of phrase as .

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