Automating creativity assessment with SemDis: An open platform for computing semantic distance

• Published in: Behavior research methods Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 757 - 780
• Main Authors: Beaty, Roger E., Johnson, Dan R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.04.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Automation; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Computer applications; Creativity; Humans; Information processing; Psychology; Psychometrics; Reproducibility of Results; Semantics; Semantic distance; Divergent thinking; Creativity; Word association; Assessment

Creativity research requires assessing the quality of ideas and products. In practice, conducting creativity research often involves asking several human raters to judge participants’ responses to creativity tasks, such as judging the novelty of ideas from the alternate uses task (AUT). Although suc...