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....highly informal, discursive and anecdotal by practitioners in artificial intelligence, tend to mention a number of recurring themes. These include incongruity, multiple perspectives (or ambiguity) surprise, psychological release and aggression, although terminology may differ. It appears from [1] that many of these ideas can be traced back to Plato and Aristotle) What is noticeable about these (many and varied) discussions is that they are not all considering the same aspect of humour. For example, those who consider aggression (or superiority) as the unifying essence of humour ....

....reader. Frank Muir) There are these two goldfish in a tank. One of them says to the other: how do you drive this thing A young lady was talking to the doctor who had operated on her. Do you think the scar will show she asked. That will be entirely up to you, he said. Quoted in [1]) It is commonly suggested that the effect on the hearer of the suddenly revealed meaning is an attempt to resolve the apparent incongruity. See [2] for a discussion of incongruity resolution approaches. Notice the similarity to the quest for coherence within poetic interpretation postulated ....

Salvatore Attardo. Linguistic Theories of Humour. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 1994.

....to characterise, in formal symbolic terms, human emotions (e.g. Bates (1994) Frijda and Mo at (1993) Frijda and Mo at (1994) One area which is particularly challenging is the modelling of humour. Although the mechanisms of humour have been discussed for thousands of years (see Chapter 1 of Attardo (1994) for a brief review) there has been relatively little work involving rigorous or detailed description of actual humorous mechanisms. At present, humour studies is very much a multi disciplinary area, with contributions principally from philosophy, psychology, linguistics, sociology and ....

....as highly informal, discursive and anecdotal by practitioners in arti cial intelligence, tend to mention a number of recurring themes. These include incongruity, multiple perspectives (or ambiguity) surprise, psychological release and aggression, although terminology may di er. It appears from Attardo (1994) that many of these ideas can be traced back to Plato and Aristotle) What is noticeable about these (many and varied) discussions is that they are not all considering the same aspect of humour. For example, those who consider aggression (or superiority) as the unifying essence of humour (e.g. ....

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Attardo, S. (1994). Linguistic Theories of Humour. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.

....form of a well known maxim. 3 SOME ASSUMPTIONS In tackling a topic as broad and as deep as humour, or even just verbally expressed humour, there are a number of different methodological strategies that could be adopted. One possibility (perhaps exemplified by the General Theory of Verbal Humour [Att94]) is to devise a very general theory which attempts to encompass all possible phenomena in the area under consideration. Particular studies of subspecies of humour are then carried out within this overall framework, guided by its form and its principles. This is logically a very sound approach, ....

Salvatore Attardo. Linguistic Theories of Humour. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 1994.

....1 Introduction There is at present no general theory of humour which is fully detailed and rigorous. Even in the slightly more restricted area of verbal humour humour which is transmitted through language there is no agreed or well developed model of the underlying mechanisms (see (Attardo, 1994) for a useful survey) We are interested in the operation of verbal humour, and have made a start by investigating one particular class of humorous item the punning riddle (see (Binsted and Ritchie, 1996; Binsted and Ritchie, 1997) for discussion of our general theoretical assumptions and the ....

Attardo, S. (1994). Linguistic Theories of Humour. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter.

....to bond teams, ease relationships and elicit cooperation [ Barsoux, 17 ] Several of these goals are equally important in human computer communication, particularly those related to reducing tension and alienation. There has been a considerable amount of research on the linguistics of humour [ Attardo, 1994; Attardo and Raskin, 1991 ] however, most of the work has not been formal enough to be used directly in the computational modelling of humour, Pepicello and Green s work on puns [ Pepicello and Green, 1984 ] being a notable exception. Within the artificial intelligence community, most writings ....

Salvatore Attardo. Linguistic Theories of Humour. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 1994.

....advantage (unlike, say, computer art) of leading to more directly falsifiable theories: the resulting humorous artefacts can be tested on human subjects. Although no computationally tractable model of humour as a whole has yet been developed (see [AR91] for a general theory of verbal humour, and [Att94] for a comprehensive survey) we believe that by tackling a very limited and linguistically based set of phenomena, it is realistic to start developing a formal symbolic account. One very common form of humour is the questionanswer joke, or riddle. Most of these jokes (e.g. almost a third of the ....

.... as riddles that manipulate social conventions to confuse the listener) What the linguistic strategies have in common is that they ask the riddlee to accept a similarity on a phonological, morphological, or syntactic level as a point of semantic comparison, and thus get fooled (cf. iconism [Att94]) Riddles of this type are known as puns. We decided to select a subset of riddles which displayed regularities at the level of semantic, or logical, structure, and whose structures could be described in fairly conventional linguistic terms (simple lexical relations) As a sample of existing ....

Salvatore Attardo. Linguistic Theories of Humour. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.

....can be interpreted consistently within their methodological framework. Moreover, these approaches explicitly address issues of formality and falsifiability. Falsifiable, formal and implementable models Although many scholars have said many things about the linguistics of humour over the years (see [Attardo, 1994] for a good survey) very little of what has been said is falsifiable. For a hypothesis to be scientific, it must be falsifiable. That is, there must be some possible experiment or discovery which would prove the hypothesis false. For example, a theory which predicts the result of an experiment ....

....literature and sociology, less has been done in linguistics, and little in AI or computational linguistics. Models of humour abound; computationally tractable models do not. The field of humour studies is wide, and has been well summarised elsewhere (e.g. in [Chapman and Foot, 1976] and [Attardo, 1994]) This chapter provides an overview of the works that have influenced this research in particular, Pepicello and Green s analysis of the language of riddles [Pepicello and Green, 1984] and Attardo and Raskin s General Theory of Verbal Humour [Attardo and Raskin, 1991] We also discuss other ....

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