Computational Creativity : design and development of algorithms for automatic sentence generation ; Créativité Computationnelle : conception et développement d'algorithmes pour la génération automatique de phrases littéraires

In the present work, we broadly approach the study of creativity, with a special interest on how it is created with artificial devices, and present a morefocused and formal treatment of the artificial generation of literary texts. In The creative mind : Myths and Mechanisms (Boden, 2004), Margaret Boden discusses how the creative process is an intuitive path followed by humans to generate new artifacts that are valued for their novelty, significance to society and beauty. She proposes a classification of creativity into the following three categories : Combinatorial Creativity, Exploratory Creativity and Transformational Creativity. The search for automated processes capable of creatively generating artifacts has recently given rise to a field of research called Computational Creativity, which offers interesting perspectives in various fields of art such as the visual arts, music, and literature. Although there have been significant advances in the field, there are difficulties and limitations related to the inherent complexity of understanding the creative process in the human mind. Our main purpose in this study regards Automatic Text Generation (ATG) and, more specifically, the generation of literary sentences. We thus aim at the problem of developing automatic techniques (algorithms) for generating linguistic objects which are sentences or parts of paragraphs that can be perceived as belonging to a literary text. Most research regarding ATG avoids the literary genre due to its intricate complexity. Some basic difficulties involve the ambiguity of meaning and even the constitution of a universal definition of what a literary text is. Literary documents often refer to imaginary or allegorical worlds or situations, in contrast to genres that deal with the written communication of facts. These characteristics and others, such as the drive for elegance or the use of rare words in literature, make the tasks of automatic generation and analysis of literary texts a complex and difficult endeavor. Due to the ...