Towards Conversational Humor Analysis and Design

Understand

Well-defined jokes can be divided neatly into a setup and a punchline.

• While most works on humor today talk about a joke as a whole, the idea of generating punchlines to a setup has applications in conversational humor, where funny remarks usually occur with a non-funny context.
• Thus, this paper is based around two core concepts: Classification and the Generation of a punchline from a particular setup based on the Incongruity Theory.
• We first implement a feature-based machine learning model to classify humor.