Towards the Cognitive Informatics of Natural Language: The Case of Computational Humor

This paper deals with a contribution of computational analysis of verbal humor to natural language cognition. After a brief introduction to the growing area of computational humor and of its roots in humor theories, it describes and compares the results of a human-subject and computer experiment. Th...

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Published in:International journal of cognitive informatics & natural intelligence Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 25 - 45
Main Authors: Taylor, J M, Raskin, V
Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: Hershey, PA Idea Group Publishing 01.07.2013
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Subjects:
Analysis
Applied sciences
Artificial intelligence
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition
Cognition. Intelligence
Cognitive ability
Computational linguistics
Computer applications
Computer science; control theory; systems
Exact sciences and technology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Informatics
Information processing
Language
Language processing
Learning and adaptive systems
Mental imagery. Mental representation
Methods
Natural language interfaces
Natural language processing
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Simulation
Software
Speech and sound recognition and synthesis. Linguistics
Wit and humor
Germany
Cognitive Informatics
Methodology
Ontology
Computer simulation
Computational Humor
Humor Cognition
Modeling
Humor
Cognitive theory
Language processing
Ontological Semantic Technology
Semantics
Conceptualization
Humor Research
Natural language
Internet
Comprehensive Meaning as Conceptualization
Artificial intelligence
Interdisciplinary field
Cognitive psychology
ISSN:1557-3958, 1557-3966
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Summary:This paper deals with a contribution of computational analysis of verbal humor to natural language cognition. After a brief introduction to the growing area of computational humor and of its roots in humor theories, it describes and compares the results of a human-subject and computer experiment. The specific interest is to compare how well the computer, equipped with the resources and methodologies of the Ontological Semantic Technology, a comprehensive meaning access approach to natural language processing, can model several aspects of the cognitive behaviors of humans processing jokes from the Internet. The paper, sharing several important premises with cognitive informatics, is meant as a direct contribution to this rapidly developing transdisciplinary field, and as such, it bears on cognitive computing as well, especially at the level of implementation of computational humor in non-toy systems and the relationship to human cognitive processes of understanding and producing humor.
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ISSN:1557-3958
1557-3966
DOI:10.4018/ijcini.2013070102