AIIDE
2009
14 years 17 days ago
2009
We examine the problem of automatically selecting gestures that are appropriate to use when telling a joke or a short story. Our current application of this is a joke telling huma...
LREC
2008
14 years 26 days ago
2008
We implement several different methods for generating jokes in English. The common theme is to intentionally produce poor utterances by breaking Grice's maxims of conversatio...
COLING
2008
14 years 27 days ago
2008
We present a complete system that generates Japanese stand-up comedy. Different modules generating different types of jokes are tied together into a performance where all jokes ar...
INTETAIN
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Here we present a model of a subtype of one-line jokes (not puns) that describes the relationship between the connector (part of the setup) and the disjunctor (often called the pun...