Weaving creativity into the Semantic Web: a language-processing approach

This paper describes a novel language processing approach to the analysis of creativity and the development of a machine-readable ontology of creativity. The ontology provides a conceptualisation of creativity in terms of a set of fourteen key components or building blocks and has application to research into the nature of creativity in general and to the evaluation of creative practice, in particular. We further argue that the provision of a machine readable conceptualisation of creativity provides a small, but important step towards addressing the problem of automated evaluation, ’the Achilles’ heel of AI research on creativity’ (Boden 1999).