Evaluating humorous properties of texts

Graeme Ritchie; Robyn  Munro; Helen Pain; Kim Binsted

Evaluating humorous properties of texts

Graeme Ritchie, Robyn Munro, Helen Pain, Kim Binsted

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The success of a humour-generation program is usually assessed by having human judges rate texts. However, there has been little consideration of the patterns shown by such judgements, particularly in terms of consistency. We present two small studies which attempt to gauge the consistency of human judgements about humorous aspects of texts, and discuss some of the methodological issues involved.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine
Publisher	The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour
Pages	17-21
Number of pages	4
Volume	2
ISBN (Print)	1 902956 61 3
Publication status	Published - 2008

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Evaluating humorous properties of texts. / Ritchie, Graeme; Munro, Robyn ; Pain, Helen et al.
Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine. Vol. 2 The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, 2008. p. 17-21.

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