AI and the Death Cult of Eternal Life
February 2026
When Big Tech Clashes with Big Creativity
March 2025
Language Using, Collaborative Robots: Why Humanoids, Why Now?
November 2024
Mindreaders and Mimics
November 2024
How to test-drive an AGI: linguistic indicators of conceptual capabilities
December 2023
AI could save the world – should it really be regulated by the people who don’t care?
November 2023
Riposte to the 23
November 2023
Prompt Tuning for Speech Recognition on Unknown Spoken Name Entities
Xizi Wei and Stephen McGregor
Interspeech 2024
September 2024
Metaphor Generation through Context Sensitive Distributional Semantics
Stephen McGregor, Matthew Purver, and Geraint Wiggins
Figurative Thought and Language (John Benjamins)
December 2020
Review of MetaNet (ed. Miriam R. L. Petruck)
Stephen McGregor
Metaphor and the Social World
May 2020
A Distributional Model of Affordances in Semantic Type Coercion
Stephen McGregor and Elisabetta Jezek
International Conference on Computational Semantics
May 2019
Re-Representing Metaphor: Modeling Metaphor Perception Using Dynamically Contextual Distributional Semantics
Stephen McGregor, Kat Agres, Karolina Rataj, Matthew Purver, and Geraint Wiggins
Frontiers in Psychology
April 2019
Distributional Analysis of Verbal Neologisms: Task Definition and Dataset Construction
Matteo Amore, Stephen McGregor, and Elisabetta Jezek
Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018)
December 2018
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
International 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, and 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
Journal of Artificial 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
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
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
Computational Creativity: A Philosophical Approach, and an 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