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The Multidisciplinary Facets of Research on Humour

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Rada MihalceaAuthors Info & Claims

WILF '07: Proceedings of the 7th international workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications: Applications of Fuzzy Sets Theory

Pages 412 - 421

Published: 07 July 2007 Publication History

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Humour is one of the most interesting and puzzling aspects of human behaviour, and it has been rightfully argued that it plays an important role in an individual's development, as well as in interpersonal communication. Research on this topic has received a significant amount of attention from fields as diverse as linguistics, philosophy, psychology and sociology, and recent years have also seen attempts to build computational models for humour generation and recognition.

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Reyes ABuscaldi DRosso P(2009)An Analysis of the Impact of Ambiguity on Automatic Humour RecognitionProceedings of the 12th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue10.1007/978-3-642-04208-9_25(162-169)Online publication date: 25-Aug-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-04208-9_25
Friedland LAllan JShanahan JAmer-Yahia SManolescu IZhang YEvans DKolcz AChoi KChowdury A(2008)Joke retrievalProceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management10.1145/1458082.1458199(883-892)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1458082.1458199

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Reyes ABuscaldi DRosso P(2009)An Analysis of the Impact of Ambiguity on Automatic Humour RecognitionProceedings of the 12th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue10.1007/978-3-642-04208-9_25(162-169)Online publication date: 25-Aug-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-04208-9_25
Friedland LAllan JShanahan JAmer-Yahia SManolescu IZhang YEvans DKolcz AChoi KChowdury A(2008)Joke retrievalProceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management10.1145/1458082.1458199(883-892)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1458082.1458199

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