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Answers to AUT Found on Short List of Word Co-Occurrences Terms

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ID21612005
AuthorsAriel Klein (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, corresponding author), Toni Badia (0000-0002-9429-5940, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Year2024
Volume36
Issue1
Pages138-154
Publication date2024-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCreativity Research Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1040-0419 • E-ISSN: 1532-6934
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10400419.2022.2103314
OpenAlexW4292249676
LanguageEN
References cited68

Divergent thinking (DT) is a fundamental part of creative ideation. Understanding its role in cognition and its attainment through language technology can provide the scaffolding to enhance creative endeavors. This study is a proof of concept on the automatic generation of keyword responses as found on the AUT (Alternative Uses Task), a test commonly used to measure DT. Within a psychometric perspective, we propose a frequency-based simple word co-occurrence method called Co-OBM (co-occurrence-based method). Drawing from Natural Language Processing (NLP) we choose the adequate parameter settings for this task, including part-of-speech tagging (POS), word form, association measure, minimum occurrence in corpus and window size. Through our experiments, we show how most of the popular responses to AUT can be identified in a short word co-occurrence list, together with some of the least frequent, and usually more creative, responses, how this outcome is not random but based on linguistic patterns (Experiment 1); and how Co-OBM output can enhance the performance of subjects’ AUT responses (Experiment 2). This is relevant since word co-occurrence is at the core of current language models. Our work aims to reflect and provide technical and empirical foundations for the development of distributional language models for creative purposes

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Creativity · Ideation · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Word Association · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques · Computer Science · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Psychology · Topic Modeling · Artificial Intelligence

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