The purpose of this study was to evaluate the humor and offense within ethnic jokes. College students from introductory and intermediate communication courses at a large southwestern university were solicited to respond to a questionnaire containing three different sections. The Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) was employed to assess the degree of ethnic identity. The Humor Orientation...

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 ...

This thesis describes a formal model of a subtype of humour, and the implementation of that model in a program that generates jokes of that subtype. Although there is a great deal of literature on humour in general, very little formal work has been done on puns, and none has been implemented. All current linguistic theories of humour are over-general and not falsi able. Our model, which is spec...

Right-hemisphere brain damaged (RHD) patients and a normal control group were tested for their ability to infer first- and second-order mental states and to understand the communicative intentions underlying ironic jokes and lies. Subjects listened to stories involving a character who had either a true or a false belief about another character's knowledge. Stories ended either with an ironic jo...

Jokes are intentionally written to be funny, but not all jokes created the same. While recent work has shown impressive results on humor detection in text, we instead investigate more nuanced task of detecting subtypes, especially adult variety. To that end, introduce a novel dataset filtered from Reddit and solve subtype classification using finetuned Transformer dubbed Naughtyformer. Moreover...

The STANDUP project has developed and evaluated interactive software which allows children with language and speech impairments to engage in building simple punning riddles. The session will reflect on the role that humour plays in language development and the difference between humour appreciation and comprehension. The Keyword Manipulation Task will be presented as a tool for measuring the un...