Nasrettin Hoca, Anadolu kültürünün en önemli ismidir. Nasreddin Hoca hem bir mizah ustası de büyük düşünür ve halk bilgesidir. fıkralarında eğlendirirken eğitecek düşündürecek noktalar bulunmaktadır. her yaştan çocuğun kendi bilişsel seviyesine göre içeren unsurlar bulabileceği düşünülmektedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı okul öncesi dönemdeki çocukların fıkralarına ilişkin görüşlerini belirlemektir. T...

Abstract The figure of the laughably ignorant Irish maid was one most recognizable stereotypes in Anglo-American print culture over late nineteenth century. Jokes about ‘Bridget’ and ‘Biddy’ crossed Atlantic both directions, contributing to a transnational repository comic tropes. While cultural representation immigrants often shaped by regional concerns, servant gags were comparable, at times ...

In this paper, we discuss a model of simple question–answer punning, implemented in a program, JAE-1, which generates riddles from humour–independent lexical entries. The model uses two main types of structure: schemata, which determine the relationships between key words in a joke, and templates, which produce the surface form of the joke. JAPE-1 succeeds in generating pieces of text that are ...

Humor is a highly-valued human skill — a sign of intelligence and creativity. Humor creation is a long-standing problem in Artificial Intelligence, because it does not easily decompose and it cannot readily be defined or detected; indeed, many humans cannot readily create jokes. However, in our survey of advice from professional comedians, we found evidence that the humor-generation process can...

It has often been observed that many jokes rely on the audience reinterpreting the initial part of the joke once the punchline is encountered. In order to elaborate on this account, we outline how these reinterpretations may happen in various ways. The examples we consider suggest that the generalisation is best stated not in terms of syntactic or even semantic forms, since the same mechanism s...

There is a class of joke which consists of an anecdote, which is sometimes quite long and often has no inherently humorous content, followed by a ®nal line which is a distorted form of some well-known phrase, proverb or quotation. Usually this ®nal line purports to summarize or draw a moral from the preceding story. This genre has some unusual aspects, from the viewpoint of conventional claims ...

Using research into learning from sequences of examples, we generate predictions about what cultural products become widely distributed in the social marketplace of ideas. We investigate what we term the Repetition-Break plot structure: the use of repetition among obviously similar items to establish a pattern, and then a final contrasting item that breaks with the pattern to generate surprise....