HumorTools: A Microtask Workflow for Writing News Satire

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  • Lydia B. Chilton
  • James A. Landay
  • Daniel S. Weld
چکیده

Humor is a highly-valued human skill — a sign of intelligence and creativity. Humor creation is a long-standing problem in Artificial Intelligence, because it does not easily decompose and it cannot readily be defined or detected; indeed, many humans cannot readily create jokes. However, in our survey of advice from professional comedians, we found evidence that the humor-generation process can be described. Based on this survey, we performed an analysis of news satire from The Onion and decomposed the process of humor creation into seven microtasks. We then developed a workflow, inspired by the design literature, that invokes these microtasks in a novel, dynamic manner. To evaluate our microtasks and workflow, we recruited 20 people, finding that the 85% of them found the workflow made their process more methodical and the microtasks enabled them to make a wider variety of jokes.

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تاریخ انتشار 2015