Computing the creativeness of amusing advertisements: A Bayesian model of Burma-Shave's muse

Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing: AIEDAM

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 109-128

  Burns, Kevin ^a  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Bayesian; Creativity; Information; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFORMATION THEORY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; SEMANTICS;

AESTHETICS; BAYESIAN; COMPUTATIONAL EVALUATION; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CREATIVITY; INFORMATION; MARGINAL ENTROPY; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 84921313373     PISSN: 08900604     EISSN: 14691760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0890060414000699     Document Type: Article

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