Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: Recognizing the intent of a written utterance is a difficult task.To understand the intended meanings, it may be necessary to recognize all possible meanings of the utterance; and, then choose the most appropriate one for the situation.The choice may be made using heuristics.A method for recognition of a humorous intent in a text is proposed.Computational recognition of a humorous intent can be broken down into two parts: recognition of a humorous text, and recognition of the intent to be humorous.To narrow the focus, we propose to recognize the humorous intent of short dialogs.A dialog will be considered humorous if the first part of the text can have two meanings; and, one of the meanings conflicts with the meaning of the punchline.The intent of the text is considered humorous if the schema related to the non-conflicting meaning of the setup has not been activated in the preceding text.
Authors: Julia M. Taylor, Lawrence J. Mazlack
Institution: University of Cincinnati
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W56758227