The Etymology of "Pun"

Identification of Homographic Pun Location for Pun Understanding

This paper introduces a novel framework for homographic pun location identification. Two observations, the existence of the support term and the preferred positions of the pun in context, are considered as crucial hints for pun identification. We first nominate the pun candidates, and then select the most probable one based on various strategies. Experimental results show the effectiveness of o...

Medical Etymology

Pun and Non-Pun Humor in Second-Language Learning

We believe that the use of humor by conversational software agents would significantly improve secondlanguage learning. Puns help students to learn about homophony, and to distinguish between words with similar sounds or spellings; idiom-based jokes provide memorable contexts for idioms, which are notoriously difficult to memorize; and scalar humor introduces the student to common comparisons i...

Etymology, history, and artifacts

Elliptic really does have a connection with literal geometric ellipses, removed by a few steps. Integrals expressing arc length of ellipses are less elementary than integrals for inverse trigonometric functions, and were named elliptic because of this. Abel and Jacobi discovered in 1827 that the inverse functions are doubly periodic (explained below). This chain of events caused these functions...

A brief etymology of the collateral circulation.

It is well known that the protective capacity of the collateral circulation falls short in many individuals with ischemic disease of the heart, brain, and lower extremities. In the past 15 years, opportunities created by molecular and genetic tools, together with disappointing outcomes in many angiogenic trials, have led to a significant increase in the number of studies that focus on: understa...