Beyond a Joke: Types of Conversational Humour

Gender and Humour Beyond a Joke

This thesis investigates the interaction between gender and humour in sponta neous New Zealand English Tapes were collected of men and women in single sex and mixed groups and instances of humour were identi ed and transcribed The taping situation proved more comfortable for the female groups and the mixed groups than for the male groups Male groups tend to be more task based and so often treat...

Psychology. Beyond a joke: from animal laughter to human joy?

be consistently associated with specific DNA sequence motifs (17). These comparisons suggest a number of potentially useful studies. Although technically challenging, it may prove fruitful to examine regional variation in chro-matin accessibility in mammalian meiotic cells. How does this affect the action of recombination-related proteins such as Spo11? In addition to Spo11, at least 11 other p...

Computational Humour: Utilizing Cross-Reference Ambiguity for Conversational Jokes

Humour plays an important role in human conversations. People use humour to keep a conversation pleasant, to provide some relaxation during a discussion and to cover up mistakes and misunderstandings. Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) that are able to understand and use humour will therefore be more believable and increase the motivation of a user to interact with them (Nijholt, 2005). Unti...

When Should Computers Joke? - Concept of Emotiveness Analysis Based Timing Algorithm for Humor-Equipped Conversational Systems

In this paper we introduce our idea of emotiveness-analysis-based timing algorithm, aimed to detect conditions in which it is appropriate to tell a joke in a conversation. We briefly summarize existing works concerning correlations between emotions and humor and describe the outline of proposed algorithm. The concept is to be used in our research on joking conversational systems.

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