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| Speaker: | Graeme Ritchie |
| Division of Informatics: Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, UK | |
| Date: | Tuesday 11th December 1998 |
| Time: | 11:30 - 12:30 |
| Place: | Seminar room 357, Building E6A, Macquarie University |
Abstract:
Despite centuries of pondering by philosophers, there is no theory of the mechanisms of humour which reaches the level of detail, rigour or precision necessary for computational modelling. There has also been remarkably little attention to humour within the otherwise adventurous discipline of artificial intelligence. This talk is a review of the prospects for remedying these omissions by attempting to develop symbolic analyses of humour conveyed in language. In particular, there will be discussion of the relation of humour theory to linguistic description, and of the "incongruity-resolution" account of humour.
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