Computational Mechanisms for Pun Generation

Graeme D Ritchie

Computational Mechanisms for Pun Generation

Graeme D Ritchie

Computing Science

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Abstract

Computer pun-generators have so far relied on arbitrary semantic content, not linked to the immediate context. The mechanisms used, although tractable,
may be of limited applicability. Integrating puns into normal text may involve complex search.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th European Natural Language Generation Workshop
Editors	Graham Wilcock, Kristiina Jokinen, Chris Mellish, Ehud Reiter
Place of Publication	Morristown, NJ, USA
Publisher	ACL Anthology
Pages	125-132
Publication status	Published - 2005

Keywords

puns
computational humour, generation algorithms

Access to Document

http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~gritchie/papers/enlg05.pdf

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