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Belief revision and incongruity: is it a joke?*

Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Incongruity often makes people laugh. You have to be smart to say stupid things. It requires to be even smarter for understanding them. This paper is a shameless attempt to formalise this intelligent behaviour in the case of an agent listening to a joke. All this is a matter of revision of beliefs, surprise and violation of norms.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4386027804
FWCI: 0.262
Cites: 54
Cited by: 3
Related to: 10