David Ayre

Bio

David Ayre is the Coordinator of Information Applications at Emily Carr University. David holds a BSc in Computing Science with a specialization in software engineering from Simon Fraser University.

work

The Dictionary Project

2006

The Dictionary Project is a poetic and theoretical investigative project aimed at the construction of software which generates new domain specific terminology using an ontologically driven text generation system. The software not only creates new words which have never before existed, but definitions for the words themselves which simulates the knowledge creation process.

The input to the system is a set of domain specific source texts (e.g. Homeric epics). The software utilizes...
GTR Language Workbench

2006

As the name might imply, the “workbench” is essentially a digital writing tool able to perform transformative, generative and analysing functions on natural language texts.

Technically, this software project means to explore how creative writing (and language use in general) might take advantage of digital processing applications to create new and innovative forms of literary art, electronic or otherwise. The tool can best be described as a digital studio for language...