An Analysis of Humorous Devices in Picturebooks:A Pictorial Article Elys Dolan (bio) Keywords humour, pictorial, picture books, children's illustration The purpose this pictorial article is to demonstrate types humour found picturebooks and how the characteristics picturebook are deployed their execution. There a great variety definitions concerning what is, but context article, Barbara Bader's...

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...

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The visual environment of humans contains abundant ambiguity and fragmentary information. Therefore, an early step of vision must disambiguate the incessant stream of information. Humorous stimuli produce a situation that is strikingly analogous to this process: Funniness is associated with the incongruity contained in a joke, pun, or cartoon. Like in vision in general, appreciating a visual pu...

This paper presents a system developed for SemEval-2017 Task 7, Detection and Interpretation of English Puns consisting of three subtasks; pun detection, pun location, and pun interpretation, respectively. The system stands on recognizing a distinctive word which has a high association with the pun in the given sentence. The intended humorous meaning of pun is identified through the use of this...