What is poorly Said is a Little Funny

Jonas Sjöbergh, Kenji Araki


Abstract
We implement several different methods for generating jokes in English. The common theme is to intentionally produce poor utterances by breaking Grice’s maxims of conversation. The generated jokes are evaluated and compared to human made jokes. They are in general quite weak jokes, though there are a few high scoring jokes and many jokes that score higher than the most boring human joke.
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L08-1615
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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
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May
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2008
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Marrakech, Morocco
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Jonas Sjöbergh and Kenji Araki. 2008. What is poorly Said is a Little Funny. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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