Current Directions in Computational Humour

  • Authors:
  • Graeme Ritchie

  • Affiliations:
  • Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 1HN (E-mail: g.d.ritchie@ed.ac.uk)

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence Review
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

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 thisfield, so the state of the art is still rather basic.Much of the research has concentrated on humour expressed verbally,and there has been some emphasis on models based on ``incongruity''.Actual implementations have involved puns of very limited forms.It is not clear that computerised jokes could enhanceuser interfaces in the near future, but there is a role forcomputer modelling in testing symbolic accounts of the structureof humorous texts. A major problem is the need for a humour-processingprogram to have knowledge of the world, and reasoning abilities.