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Style is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of the human experience: Everyone instantly and constantly assesses people and things according to their individual styles, academics establish careers by researching musical, artistic, or architectural styles, and entire industries maintain themselves by continuously creating and marketing new styles. Yet what exactly style is and how it works are elusive: We certainly know it when we see it, but there is no shared and clear understanding of the diverse phenomena that we call style. The Structure of Style explores this issue from a computational viewpoint, in terms of how information is represented, organized, and transformed in the production and perception of different styles. New computational techniques are now making it possible to model the role of style in the creation of and response to human artifacts—and therefore to develop software systems that directly make use of style in useful ways. Argamon, Burns, and Dubnov organize the research they have collected in this book according to the three roles that computation can play in stylistics. The first section of the book, Production, provides conceptual foundations by describing computer systems that create artifacts—musical pieces, texts, artworks—in different styles. The second section, Perception, explains methods for analyzing different styles and gleaning useful information, viewing style as a form of communication. The final section, Interaction, deals with reciprocal interaction between style producers and perceivers, in areas such as interactive media, improvised musical accompaniment, and game playing. The Structure of Style is written for researchers and practitioners in areas including information retrieval, computer art and music, digital humanities, computational linguistics, and artificial intelligence, who can all benefit from this comprehensive overview and in-depth description of current research in this active interdisciplinary field.

Computer art. --- Computer music. --- Computer science. --- Language and languages -- Style. --- Natural language processing (Computer science). --- Computer science --- Computer art --- Computer music --- Natural language processing (Computer science) --- Language and languages --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Style --- Style. --- Linguostylistics --- Stylistics --- NLP (Computer science) --- Electro-acoustic music --- Electroacoustic music --- Music, Computer --- Art, Computer --- Computer craft --- Digital art --- Informatics --- Arts. --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Pattern recognition. --- Application software. --- Computer Science. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Pattern Recognition. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities. --- Science --- Literary style --- Artificial intelligence --- Electronic data processing --- Human-computer interaction --- Semantic computing --- Music --- Electronic music --- New media art --- Information storage and retrieva. --- Optical pattern recognition. --- Information systems. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Optical data processing --- Pattern perception --- Perceptrons --- Visual discrimination --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Automatic data storage --- Automatic information retrieval --- Automation in documentation --- Computer-based information systems --- Data processing systems --- Data storage and retrieval systems --- Discovery systems, Information --- Information discovery systems --- Information processing systems --- Information retrieval systems --- Machine data storage and retrieval --- Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems --- Computer systems --- Electronic information resources --- Data libraries --- Digital libraries --- Information organization --- Information retrieval --- Design perception --- Pattern recognition --- Form perception --- Perception --- Figure-ground perception --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Arts, Primitive

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The ability to communicate cultural codes in multimedia depends on their meaning and beauty, as perceived by different audiences around the globe. In this book, the ongoing research on computational modeling of visual, musical and textual contents is described in terms of identifying and mapping their semantic representations across different cultures. The underlying psychology of sense-making is quantified through analysis of aesthetics in terms of organizational and structural aspects of the contents that influence an audience’s formation of expectations for future signals, violations of these expectations, and explanations of their meaning. Complexity-accuracy tradeoffs in sound representation are further used to develop new computational methods that capture poietic and aesthetic aspects in music communication. Experimental studies are reported that try to characterize preferences for complexity in abstract, classical and traditional art and music across samples of Western and Far Eastern cultures. These experiments illustrate how aesthetics can be computed in terms of semantic and information measures, highlighting commonalities and uncovering differences in aesthetic preferences across cultures and individuals.

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