Events

Plotting Poetry is a conference series focussed on computational, statistical and other quantitative approaches for the study of poetic texts, and of poeticity more broadly. This year’s conference welcomes a focus on the many forms of humour in verse. Although verse and humour might appear to sit at opposite ends of a literary hierarchy of taste and sophistication, the two have appeared together for as long as verse has been written, sung, played, shared or shouted. Versified humour can be found in popular productions and in highbrow literature, with poets writing lighter pieces alongside their other productions, as well as including humorous passages within their serious works. Organizers & programme committee: Anne-Sophie Bories, Nils Couturier, Petr Plecháč, Pablo Ruiz Fabo Webpage: https://www.plottingpoetry.org/conference/2024einsiedeln/cfp

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International conference on humour and taste. Keynote by Sophie Quirk (University of Kent) Organisers: Anne-Sophie Bories, Lara Nugues, Nils Couturier

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The project "Mining the Comic Verse" is co-organising the 6th "Plotting Poetry" international conference. It will be held in Budapest. The title of the Conference is "The Plot. Storytelling in Verse". Organisers: Levente Seláf, Margit Kiss, Anne-Sophie Bories, Petr, Plecháč, Pablo Ruiz Fabo

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Both as part of the SNSF-PRIMA project « Le Rire des vers / Mapping the Comic Verse » and as part of the lecture series « Schmerz und Schmunzeln: Die Verkörperung des Lachens », Anne-Sophie Bories and Jérôme Laubner will be hosting a lecture by the computational linguist Tony Veale (University College Dublin).

Tony Veale is an associate professor in the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. He has been a researcher in the areas of Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence since 1988, both in industry and in academia. He obtained a B.Sc (hons) in Computer Science from University College Cork (UCC) in 1988, and an M.Sc in Computer Science in 1990, before joining Hitachi Dublin Laboratory in 1990. He received his Ph.D in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin in 1996. He has divided his career between academia and industry. In the latter, he has developed text-understanding and machine translation systems for Hitachi (in particular, the translation of English into American Sign language, ASL), as well as natural-language-processing tools for the CYC project in Cycorp at Austin, Texas, and patented web-based question-answering technology for Intelliseek (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Coreintellect (Dallas, Texas), where he held the position of Chief Scientist. During his tenure on the CYC project in Cycorp inc. he developed a model of analogical reasoning for CYC and contributed to the DARPA-funded High-Performance-Knowledge-Bases (HPKB) and Rapid-Knowledge-Formation (RKF) projects. He was, from 2002-2007, the academic coordinator for UCD's unique international degree programme in Software Engineering, which UCD delivers in Shanghai at Fudan university; he continues to deliver courses on this degree. He is the author of Exploding The Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012) and a founder member of the international Association for Computational Creativity (ACC). He organized the ACC's annual conference, The International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) in UCD in May 2012.

Abstract: As the name implies, a "comic" strip is a form of sequential art that emphasizes the comic potential of a narrative, either explicitly or implicitly. The comic strips that one finds on the "funny pages" of modern newspapers tend toward the former, while even serious narratives can be made more embodied, engaging and humorous through the use of visual metaphors and exaggerated depictions of actions and emotions. This project concerns itself with the automated generation of comic strips for different kinds of narrative: for narratives that are themselves generated by a machine, using existing approaches to story-generation, or for the arguments that are exchanged in online debates, such as the fractious debates over vaccines and global warming on Twitter. In each case the original narrative is a starting point for humour production. A two-stage process is used to generate the final, fully-rendered comic strips in each case. In the first stage, the narrative is translated into an intermediate comics representation (using an XML markup schema) that is hierarchically structured, wholly symbolic, and amenable to further logical manipulation; in the second, this representation is translated into a visual sequence of panels, embodied actions and character poses, apt visual backgrounds, and speech/thought balloons by a rendering engine. I will show how the intermediate representation is not just suited to comics production, but suited to the application of different kinds of logical mechanisms to foster the creation of a humorous effect.

On 17-19 November 2022, we took part in the conference « Archives sonores de poésie 2, Dans la bibliothèque des voix » in Paris, organised By Michel Murat, Abigail Lang and Céline Pardo at Sorbonne University. One of the papers we delivered was:

• Lara Nugues, Nils Couturier, « Vers écrit, vers chanté, vers inaudible »

We were happy to present our work, hear about some exciting projects, and of course meet with old and new faces!

On 17-19 November 2022, we took part in the conference « Archives sonores de poésie 2, Dans la bibliothèque des voix » in Paris, organised By Michel Murat, Abigail Lang and Céline Pardo at Sorbonne University. One of the papers we delivered was:

• Anne-Sophie Bories, Nils Couturier, « Raymond Queneau : métrique et prosodie »

We were happy to present our work, hear about some exciting projects, and of course meet with old and new faces!

As a contributing author, Anne-Sophie Bories was invited to take part in the presentation of and discussion about the issue "La théorie littéraire en questionS" in the journal Histoire de la Recherche contemporaine

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At the 5th Plotting Poetry Conference in Tartu (Estonia) centred on "Popular Voices", Lara Nugues and Nils Couturier presented a paper titled "Constructing a TIMBRE Database : Handling Popular Tunes Reuses"

The 5th Plotting Poetry Conference in Tartu (Estonia) centres on "Popular Voices". It is co-organised by the Rire des vers team (Anne-Sophie Bories and Petr Plecháč), alongside Mari Sarv, Maria-Kristiina Lotman, and Pablo Ruiz Fabo.

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At the 5th Plotting Poetry Conference in Tartu (Estonia) centred on "Popular Voices", Anne-Sophie Bories presented a paper titled "Jokes without Humour"

Study day "Texte et musique - relations croisées", organised in Basel by Lara Nugues, Nils Couturier, Anne-Sophie Bories.

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Anne-Sophie Bories was invited to give a lecture for the Prague Linguistic Circle, where she talked about "Layering Annotations on a (Sometimes) Humorous Corpus"

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Presentation at a conference

Presentation at the conference "Chanter sur l'air de"

organized by Anne-Sophie Bories

Organized by Anne-Sophie Bories

Organized by Anne-Sophie Bories

Lecture by Anne-Sophie Bories within the Kraków Digital Humanities Lunch

Organized by Anne-Sophie Bories

Organized by Anne-Sophie

Organized by Anne-Sophie Bories

Organized by Anne-Sophie Bories

Lecture within "Chansons pour… chansons contre", Third Biennial of International Song Studies

Lecture within the "Trends datengetriebene Geisteswissenschaften"