Blending in the Hub Towards a computational concept invention platform

Conceptual blending has been employed very success-fully to understand the process of concept invention, studied particularly within cognitive psychology and linguistics. However, despite this influential research, within computational creativity little effort has been devoted to fully formalise these ideas and to make them amenable to computational techniques. We here present the basic formalisation of conceptual blending, as sketched by the late Joseph Goguen, and show how the Distributed Ontology LanguageDOL can be used to declaratively specify blending diagrams. Moreover, we discuss in detail how the workflow and creative act of generating and evaluating a new, blended concept can be managed and computationally supported within On