IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/igg/jcini0/v7y2013i3p25-45.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

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

Author

Listed:
  • J. M. Taylor

    (IEEE, Department of Computer and Information Technology, Center for the Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)

  • V. Raskin

    (IEEE, Department of English, Linguistics Program, Center for the Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, (LING/CERIAS/CS/CIT), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)

Abstract

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.

Suggested Citation

  • J. M. Taylor & V. Raskin, 2013. "Towards the Cognitive Informatics of Natural Language: The Case of Computational Humor," International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (IJCINI), IGI Global, vol. 7(3), pages 25-45, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jcini0:v:7:y:2013:i:3:p:25-45
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/ijcini.2013070102
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:igg:jcini0:v:7:y:2013:i:3:p:25-45. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Journal Editor (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.igi-global.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.