Abstract / Description of output
The past 15 years has seen the development of a number of
programs which perform tasks in the area of humour, but
these have been exploratory research prototypes, usually
on a very small scale, and none of them interacted with
users. Amongst those which actually created humorous
texts, the JAPE program was probably the most substantial,
but even it was far from being useful for any practical purpose.
We have developed a fully engineered riddle generator,
inspired by the ideas in the JAPE system, which uses a
large-scale multimedia lexicon and a set of symbolic rules
to generate jokes. It has an interactive user interface, specially
designed for children with complex communication
needs (CCN), so that users can make choices to guide the
riddle generator. The software is robust, stable, and responds
sufficiently promptly that naive users can interact
without difficulty. It has been tested over with real users
(children with CCN), with highly posi
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Creativity |
| Pages | 91-98 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |