Writing

A list of some of my publications, with links to files in most cases.

Academic Publications

A Distributional Semantic Methodology for Enhanced Search in Historical Records: A Case Study on Smell
Stephen McGregor and Barbara McGillivray
KONVENS: The Conference on Natural Language Processing
September 2018

Affordances in Grounded Language Learning
Stephen McGregor and KyungTae Lim
ACL Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning and Processing
July 2018

Geometric Methods in Context Sensitive Distributional Semantics
Stephen McGregor
PhD Thesis
February 2018

A Geometric Method for Detecting Semantic Coercion
Stephen McGregor, Elisabetta Jezek, Matthew Purver, and Geraint Wiggins
Internation Workshop on Computational Semantics
September 2017

Process Based Evaluation of Computer Generated Poetry
Stephen McGregor, Matthew Purver, and Geraint Wiggins
INLG Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation
September 2016

Modeling Metaphor Perception with Distributional Semantics Vector Space Models
Kat R. Agres, Stephen McGregor, Karolina Rataj, Matthew Purver, Geraint A. Wiggins
ESSLLI Workshop on Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence
August 2016

Words, Concepts, and the Geometry of Analogy
Stephen McGregor, Matthew Purver, and Geraint Wiggins
Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics and Cognitive Science
June 2016

From Distributional Semantics to Conceptual Spaces: A Novel Computational Method for Concept Creation
Stephen McGregor, Kat Agres, Matthew Purver, and Geraint A. Wiggins
Jounral of Aritificial General Intelligence
December 2015

Conceptualizing Creativity: From Distributional Semantics to Conceptual Spaces
Kat Agres, Stephen McGregor, Matthew Purver, and Geraint Wiggins
Sixth International Conference on Computational Creativity
July 2015

Metaphor, Meaning, Computers and Consciousness
Stephen McGregor, Matthew Purver, and Geraint Wiggins
8th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy: The Significance of Metaphor and Other Figurative Modes of Expression and Thought
April 2015

How Many Robots Does It Take? Creativity, Robots and Multi-Agent Systems
Stephen McGregor, Mariano Mora McGinty, and Sascha Griffiths
Second AISB Workshop on Computational Creativity
April 2015

Computational Creativity: A Philosophical Approach, and and Approach to Philosophy
Stephen McGregor, Matthew Purver, and Geraint Wiggins
Fifth International Conference on Computational Creativity
June 2014

Considering the Law as an Evaluative Mechanism for Computational Creativity
Stephen McGregor
AISB Workshop on Computational Creativity
April 2014