PhD: Constraint-Based Neural Language Models for Creative Language Generation

Within the context of the ERC Consolidator Grant project TENACITY (Tensors and Neural Networks for Computational Creativity), funded by the European Research Council, the Centre for Computational Linguistics (CCL), part of the ComForT research unit at KU Leuven, seeks to hire a PhD student to carry out research on constraint-based neural network architectures for creative language generation.

Project

Creativity pervades human language use, yet the mechanisms behind it are poorly understood, and current language technology shows little true creativity. The ERC project TENACITY develops computational models of language that exhibit creativity, combining interpretable tensor factorization methods with neural language models. This PhD position focuses on the neural strand of the project. Neural language models are trained to reproduce the patterns of their training data, and thus show little genuine creativity in generation. By constraining a models gener...