| 2005, The Aesthetiscope: Visualizing Aesthetic Readings of Text (2008) | |||||||||||||||||
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| The traditional story understanding dogma in AI holds that there exists a singular, objective meaning implied by text, which can be uncovered by applying just the right logical inferences. But according to research into the cognition of reading, text can also be read, not objectively, but aesthetically. An aesthetic reading of text engages not only the agency of thought, but also intuition, sensation, and sentiment, and cultural interpretation. We have developed and implemented a basic computational model of aesthetic reading, which employs Carl Jung’s Modes of Interpretation idea to delegate the task of aesthetic interpretation out to several different textual analysis engines, each computing a different mode of interpreting text, such as generating sentimental evocations of a text (Feeling modality), or | |||||||||||||||||
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