For understanding humorous dialogue, a collection of humorous expressions is needed. In addition to humorous expressions, their annotations are important to be used as language resources. In this paper, we analyzed how human assessors annotate humorous expressions extracted from an online community-based questionanswering (CQA) corpus, which contains many interesting examples of humorous commun...

Previous research has shown that humorous reappraisal can reduce elicited negative emotions, suggesting that humor may be a functional strategy to cope with emotionally negative situations. However, the effect of humorous reappraisal on later memory about the emotion-eliciting situation is currently unknown, although this is crucial for more adaptive responding in future situations. To address ...

In this paper we look at possibilities to introduce humorous situations in smart environments. The assumption is that in future smart environments we have the possibility to configure and even real-time reconfigure environments in a way that humorous situations can be created or that conditions for humorous situations to emerge can be implemented. However, in order to do so we need to investiga...

This study presents a quantitative analysis of humor markers in computer-mediated communication (CMC). The data for this analysis consists of naturally occurring asynchronous CMC interactions from a public fan forum. Posts were tagged and coded as either humorous or non-humorous, and each individual humorous unit was coded as being one of 8 specific forms of humor. Next, each post was tagged an...

This paper focuses on one of the most prominent manifestations of humorous communication in the present era – Internet-based humor. It explores both the content and the various forms of comic-texts in ‘humor hubs’ – large, dynamic, Websites containing verbal and visual humor. A content analysis of 400 humorous texts from eight salient Websites shows that the Internet functions both as a ‘carrie...

although research on adult subjects has demonstrated a positive correlation between humor and increased concentrations of secretory immunoglobulin a, the literature has not addressed whether humor might have a similar effect on children. fifth grade student volunteers (n= 190) at elementary schools in hamadan were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. the study compared secretory i...

—The Need For Humor (NFH) scale measures the tendency to produce and seek out humor. This personality trait affects the processing and recall of humorous material. This study is a transcultural adaptation and validation of the NFH scale with French participants, including 100 university students (Study 1a) and 160 school-aged children (Study 1b). Results from iterative exploratory analyses and ...