that machines cannot? These questions have long
been tantalizing scientists and philosophers. Many
areas, such as creativity and humor, are traditionally
considered to be outside the reach of computers.
We believe that these territories define an
intriguing set of challenges for computer science, and in
particular -- data science.
We present two approaches for tackling such challenges –
an
axiomatic one and a data-driven one – and demonstrate
our
ideas on two real-world applications: finding narratives in
large
textual corpora and identifying humorous cartoon captions.
