The FCG Editor: a new milestone for linguistics and human-centric AI

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The FCG Editor is a free and innovative Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for engineering computational construction grammars. The design philosophy and description of the FCG Editor has now appeared in a PlosOne Article. Construction Grammar is an innovative linguistic theory that has been slowly but surely transforming the study of language since its conception in […]

Poiesthetic Writing Assistance – Part IV: Insights and the Future

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In part II and III of this series on poeisthetic writing assistance, we explained what poeisthetic writing assistance is and showcased Poiesis Studio, our prototype for providing poeisthetic writing assistance. We also shared our experiences of working with users, as they tried out our system, gaining insight from artists and attendees at the Maker Faire. […]

From the Maker Faire to a joint project: the story of how we met the CRC center

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In the framework of the AI for SEND students project, Sony CSL Language Team met with members of CRC, a high specialisation center in the rehabilitation of developmental disorders located in Rome and with Biancoenero, a high readability publisher located in Rome. The two days meeting was an extraordinary occasion to advance the collaboration between […]

When meaning meets human-centric AI: MUHAI lands in Paris

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The Sony Computer Science Laboratories Paris were proud to welcome their partners from the MUHAI project for a three-day project meeting at the beautiful Centre Culturel des Irlandais, situated at only a stone throw away from the lab in the Paris Latin Quarter. The MUHAI project (short for: Meaning and Understanding in Human-Centric AI) investigates […]

Getting to the heart of the S+T+ARTS Project: let the Residencies begin.

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Susi Gutsche, Olga Kisseleva and Liu Bauer are the winners of the artistic residencies we promote in collaboration with MAXXI- Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, in the framework of the European project S+T+ARTS | Repairing the Present. The S+T+ARTS initiative is a program funded by the European Commission aiming at bringing artistic perspectives into […]

Poiesthetic Writing Assistance – Part II: Poiesis Studio

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In part II of this series on poiesthetic writing assistance, we will showcase Poiesis Studio, our testbed for exploring AI-driven writing assistance. In part III, we are going to go ahead and demonstrate interactive text generation using our system and reflect on what we have learned from trying it out so far. Poiesis Studio If […]

Poiesthetic Writing Assistance – Part I: Language Models

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At the Language Team in Sony CSL, we are very interested in how people can use artificial intelligence (AI) in their creative processes. There have been many recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence that we believe will help to turbo-charge creativity in writing. Unlike grammar-checkers or spell-checkers, our goal is not to correct […]

Around Mobility, the event at the MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan

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Last week our Director Vittorio Loreto gave a speech at the event “Meet the Media Guru about Mobility“ at the MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan. The event is part of a research project aiming at studying all the transformations happening within the mobility sector, analysing the phenomenon through the lens of a human centred […]

Hideyuki Furumi visited our Lab in Paris

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Last week, we had the opportunity to welcome Hideyuki Furumi, President of Sony Europe B.V., to our Lab in Paris. Our Director, Vittorio Loreto, welcomed Furumi-san in the CSL Paris premises and presented the Lab’s vision and status. Detailed presentations have been given about the four teams devoted to Creativity, Language, Music and Sustainability. Furumi-san […]

KouzanExpo first deployment at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome

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KouzanExpo, is a user-friendly web app designed to support the visitors of an exhibition in their explorative journey. The app has been developed as a branch of Kouzan and especially adapted to exhibition environments. The app development has been conducted at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna and funded by Sony CSL Paris and had its […]