The Nuts and Bolts of Conceptual Blending: Multidomain Concept Creation with Divago

Abstract

We revisit Divago, one of the first computational systems based on conceptual blending theory, along with an integrated and extended description of the main aspects that characterise it. Our tour around this framework includes revisiting past publications that report work related to the Divago architecture since the initial sketch presented in the late 1990s, up to publications reporting experiments in concept creation, including a detailed description of a more mature version introduced in 2005. Additionally, we report ongoing research work aimed at adding new relevant features to the system.