The 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) will take place during June-July in Paris. Computational Creativity, in case you didn't know, is defined as the art, science, philosophy and engineering of computational systems which exhibit behaviours that unbiased observers would deem to be creative. Research into creative computing is being carried out also at the Department of Computer Science and HIIT, in the Discovery research group of Prof. Hannu Toivonen.

Among the 51 papers accepted for publication in ICCC 2016, three come from the Discovery group and their collaborators and a fourth one is the result of a consortium:

• Meta4meaning: Automatic Metaphor Interpretation Using Corpus-Derived Word Associations. Ping Xiao, Khalid Alnajjar, Mark Granroth-Wilding, Kathleen Agres, Hannu Toivonen. The Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC). Paris, France, June-July 2016. To appear.
• Modes for Creative Human-Computer Collaboration: Alternating and Task-Divided Co-Creativity. Anna Kantosalo and Hannu Toivonen. The Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC). Paris, France, June-July 2016. To appear.
• Novelty-Seeking Multi-Agent Systems. Simo Linkola, Tapio Takala, Hannu Toivonen. The Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC). Paris, France, June-July 2016. To appear.
• Computational Creativity Infrastructure for Online Software Composition: A Conceptual Blending Use Case. Martin Znidarsic, Amilcar Cardoso, Pablo Gervas, Pedro Martins, Raquel Hervas, Ana Oliveira Alves, Hugo Goncalo Oliveira, Ping Xiao, Simo Linkola, Hannu Toivonen, Janez Kranjc, Nada Lavrac. The Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC). Paris, France, June-July 2016. To appear.

Interestingly, all four papers deal with completely different topics within computational creativity: automated interpretation of metaphors, concepts and models for co-creation between a human and a computer, creative multi-agent systems, and a workflow tool for creative systems where the group's contribution is a component for visual blending of images.

A fifth forthcoming publication related to computational creativity will be published in SIGKDD, the leading data mining conference:

• DopeLearning: A Computational Approach to Rap Lyrics Generation. Eric Malmi, Pyry Takala, Hannu Toivonen, Tapani Raiko, Aristides Gionis. 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. San Francisco, CA, 2016. To appear.

This one is on generation of rap lyrics, and has been written by researchers in Aalto University in collaboration with Hannu Toivonen.

For more information on computational creativity research being carried out at the Department of Computer Science, see this story and the links below.

LInks:

• The Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC): http://www.computationalcreativity.net/iccc2016/
• Discovery research group: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/discovery
• Prof. Hannu Toivonen: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/htoivone/
• Information on computational creativity research: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/story/80998/discovering-computational-creativity-university-helsinki
• Papers listed above: available via links given above for each paper, or from the pages of the Discovery research group or Prof. Toivonen