Cartoons in Romanian humorous news

Generation of Humorous Situations in Cartoons through Plan-based Formalisations

Introduction Digital Storytelling aims at developing techniques for the automatic generation of narratives by computers, in the form of computer animations. In evaluating the quality of the stories produced, there has been some work dedicated to modelling suspense [Young, 1999] or the emotions of characters [Gratch and Mrasella, 2001]. However, virtually no work has addressed the characterisati...

News about the Romanian Wordnet

There are more than 60 wordnets worldwide; the Romanian wordnet is among those that are maintained and further developed. Begun within the BalkaNet project and further enriched in various (application oriented) projects, it was used in word sense disambiguation, machine translation and question answering with promising results. We present here the latest qualitative and quantitative improvement...

RoCo-News: A Hand Validated Journalistic Corpus of Romanian

The paper briefly describes the Ro-Co project and, in greater details, one of its first outcomes, the RoCo-News corpus. Ro-Co- is a series of various registers corpora of Romanian that are developed within the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the Romanian Academy. They are planned for public release to the research community as the underlying automatic annotations are v...

Information physics in cartoons

Rolf Landauer has done more than anyone else to establish the physics of information processing as a serious subject of scientific inquiry. Here I will take a less serious approach, highlighting his contributions to this field with the help of cartoons and diagrams drawn by himself and others. Landauer has always believed that physics and mathematics are profoundly interdependent (Fig. 1): on t...

Quantifying Humorous Lexical Incongruity