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7 years ago The candidate text will be considered humorous if both of the following conditions hold: • The first, most common, meaning of the first part of the text does not agree with the rest of the text. • There is another meaning of the first part of the text that does agree with entire text.
example. Joke1: Customer: Do you mind if I try on that dress in the window? Sales Assistant: Wouldn’t it be better to use the fitting room? In Joke1, the setup is: “Customer: Do you mind if I try on that dress in the window?” The first, more obvious interpretation of the setup is that the customer wants to try on a dress that is located in the window. The punchline, “Wouldn’t it be better to use the fitting room,” reveals the second, conflicting, interpretation: customer wanting to change their clothes in the window. The first interpretation conflicts with the punchline, while the second one makes sense, even though it is an odd thing to do. “The comic effect arises when an alternative, non-favored and therefore non-expected interpretation is revealed, at the punchline, as the correct one”
Towards computational recognition of humorous intent