Humor prevails! - Implementing a joke generator into a conversational system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5360 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 214-225

  Dybala, Pawel ^a   Ptaszynski, Michal ^a   Higuchi, Shinsuke ^a   Rzepka, Rafal ^a   Araki, Kenji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Humor; Japanese puns; Jokes; Natural language processing; Non task oriented conversational system; Pun generator

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EXPERIMENTS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

HUMOR; JAPANESE PUNS; JOKES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NON-TASK ORIENTED CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEM; PUN GENERATOR;

BIONICS;

EID: 58349099288     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89378-3_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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