AMBIGUOUS LEXICAL RESOURCES FOR COMPUTATIONAL HUMOR GENERATION

Alessandro Valitutti

2012

Abstract

The ongoing work presented here is aimed to investigate to what extent it is possible to perform a feasible use of ambiguous texts in computational humor generation. The first core of a lexical database was developed in order to collect ambiguous terms in the English lexicon. Then an exploratory use of the resource for computational humor generation was performed. Finally, three existing prototypes of humor generator were simulated in order to generate different form of humorous messages from the same lexical resource.

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Valitutti A. (2012). AMBIGUOUS LEXICAL RESOURCES FOR COMPUTATIONAL HUMOR GENERATION . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-95-9, pages 532-535. DOI: 10.5220/0003882305320535


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@conference{icaart12,
author={Alessandro Valitutti},
title={AMBIGUOUS LEXICAL RESOURCES FOR COMPUTATIONAL HUMOR GENERATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2012},
pages={532-535},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003882305320535},
isbn={978-989-8425-95-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - AMBIGUOUS LEXICAL RESOURCES FOR COMPUTATIONAL HUMOR GENERATION
SN - 978-989-8425-95-9
AU - Valitutti A.
PY - 2012
SP - 532
EP - 535
DO - 10.5220/0003882305320535