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Book review The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes
- …www.elsevier.com/locate/pragma Graeme Ritchie’s book is definitely a learning experience. Reader-friendly, written in a lucid style, and yet rigorous in argumentation, it is a pleasure to read. Ritchie takes his readers on a tour of selected sights of the complex world of humor research and shows th…
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Current Directions in Computational Humour
- …Humour is a valid subject for research in artificial intelligence, as it is one of the more complex of human behaviours. Although philosophers and others have discussed humour for centuries, it is only very recently that computational work has begun in this field, so the state of the art is still ra…
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Describing Verbally Expressed Humour
- …In pursuit of the long-term goal of developing a general theory of humour, it is reasonable to study certain limited forms of humorous artefact in detail. One obvious class of humour to consider is verbally expressed humour, and in particular jokes. We propose a methodology for exploring this subare…
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The Computational Complexity of Sentence Derivation in Functional Unification Grammar
- …Functional unification /FU] grammar is a general linguistic formalism based on the merging of feature-sets. An informal outline is given of how the definition of derivation within FU grammar can be used to represent the satlsfiability of an arbitrary logical formula in conjunctive normal form. This …
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The transformational creativity hypothesis
- …Abstract The work of Boden on the nature of creativity has been extremely influential, particularly the hypothesis that the highest form of creativity results from transformation of a conceptual space. We consider how these ideas could be made more precise, and hence become amenable to empirical tes…
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Assessing creativity
- …In exploring the question of whether a computer program is behaving creatively, it is important to be explicit, and if possible formal, about the criteria that are being applied in making judgements of creativity. We propose a formal (and rather simplified) outline of the relevant attributes of a po…
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Completeness Conditions for Mixed Strategy Bidirectional Parsing
- …It has been suggested that, in certain circumstances, it might be useful for a grammar-writer to annotate which rules are to be used bottom-up and which are to be used top-down within a parser, using a bidirectional variant of the active chart parsing technique. The formal properties of such systems…
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Developing the incongruity-resolution theory
- …The idea of incongruity-resolution has frequently been suggested as an account of many types of joke. However, there is no precise statement either of this “theory ” nor of its main concepts (incongruity and resolution), and different authors may disagree on details. We concentrate on two particular…
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Database Interfaces
- …Introduction Natural language database interfaces (nldbis) are systems that allow users to access information stored in a database by formulating requests in natural language. For example, a nldbi connected to the personnel database of a company would typically be able to answer questions like the …
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A Symbolic Description of Punning Riddles and Its Computer Implementation
- …Riddles based on simple puns can be classified according to the patterns of word, syllable or phrase similarity they depend upon. We have devised a formal model of the semantic and syntactic regularities underlying some of the simpler types of punning riddle. We have also implemented this preliminar…
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