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AIIDE
2009
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Automatically Choosing Appropriate Gestures for Jokes
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...
Dai Hasegawa, Jonas Sjöbergh, Rafal Rzepka, K...
LREC
2008
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What is poorly Said is a Little Funny
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...
Jonas Sjöbergh, Kenji Araki
COLING
2008
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A Complete and Modestly Funny System for Generating and Performing Japanese Stand-Up Comedy
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...
Jonas Sjöbergh, Kenji Araki
INTETAIN
2005
Springer
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Disjunctor Selection for One-Line Jokes
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...
Jeff Stark, Kim Binsted, Benjamin Bergen