Automatic generation of creative text in Portuguese: an overview

Area of Science:

• Computational Linguistics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Natural Language Processing

Background:

• Creativity is a key goal for Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Linguistic computational creativity focuses on autonomous generation of creative text.
• This work specifically addresses creative text generation in Portuguese.

Purpose of the Study:

• To overview computational systems for generating creative Portuguese text.
• To describe adopted approaches and illustrate with examples.
• To highlight the role of computational linguistic resources and discuss future directions.

Main Methods:

• Review of existing computational systems for creative text generation.
• Description and illustration of adopted approaches.
• Analysis of underlying computational linguistic resources.

Main Results:

• Four types of creative text (poetry, humor, riddles, headlines) were considered.
• Various computational approaches for generation were described.
• The importance of linguistic resources was emphasized.

Conclusions:

• The study disseminates the field of computational creativity in Portuguese.
• Future work includes exploring neural approaches for text generation.
• Advances in AI aim to replicate human creative skills.