Tristan Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 4427829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tristan Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tristan |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0749-1100 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What’s in a pun? Assessing the relationship between phonological distance and perceived funniness of punning jokes
Punning is a form of humorous wordplay based on semantic ambiguity between two phonologically similar words – the pun and the target – in a context where both meanings are more or less acceptable. While the pun is expressed explicitly, the target is invoked implicitly in the text. Previous work has attempted to quantify and compare phonological features of puns and their targets, looking at correlations with the understandability of the jokes in …
Determinants of Poor Health among Workers in Criminal Justice, Community and Social Services, and Healthcare
Adverse childhood experiences and workplace trauma exposure are associated with poor health. However, their differential impacts by gender are difficult to assess in studies of organizations with gender imbalances (e.g., law enforcement officers are more likely men whereas social workers are more likely women). Using a community-based participatory research framework, this study examines trauma exposure, mental and physical health, and substance …
On the use of scale distortion for visual humour
In contrast to verbal humour, visual humour remains a relatively underdeveloped area of research. In this exploratory study, we investigate whether scale incongruity – i.e., discrepancy between the expected and actual experience of the size of an object – can serve as a source of humour in the visual modality. We adapt a pre-existing visual data set of mundane scenes by altering the size of an individual object in each scene and collecting humoro…
Remembering Netizens
Netizens, Michael and Ronda Hauben’s foundational treatise on Usenet and the Internet, was first published in print 25 years ago. In this piece, we trace the history and impact of the book and of Usenet itself, contextualising them within the contemporary and modern-day scholarship on virtual communities, online culture, and Internet history. We discuss the Net as a tool of empowerment, and touch on the social, technical, and economic issues rela…
Reinhold Aman, 1936–2019
Reinhold Albert Aman was born on April 8, 1936 in Fürstenzell, a small Bavarian market town near the Austrian border, and was raised in nearby Straubing and Oberschneiding.He studied chemical engineering in Augsburg and worked as a chemical analyst in Frankfurt and Munich before emigrating to North America in 1957.After spending several more years in the chemical industry in Montreal and Milwaukee, he embarked on a new course of studies, obtainin…
Towards the automatic detection and identification of English puns
Lexical polysemy, a fundamental characteristic of all human languages, has long been regarded as a major challenge to machine translation, human-computer interaction, and other applications of computational natural language processing (NLP). Traditional approaches to automatic word sense disambiguation (WSD) rest on the assumption that there exists a single, unambiguous communicative intention underlying every word in a document. However, writers…
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Towards the automatic detection and identification of English puns
Lexical polysemy, a fundamental characteristic of all human languages, has long been regarded as a major challenge to machine translation, human-computer interaction, and other applications of computational natural language processing (NLP). Traditional approaches to automatic word sense disambiguation (WSD) rest on the assumption that there exists a single, unambiguous communicative intention underlying every word in a document. However, writers…
Reinhold Aman, 1936–2019
Reinhold Albert Aman was born on April 8, 1936 in Fürstenzell, a small Bavarian market town near the Austrian border, and was raised in nearby Straubing and Oberschneiding.He studied chemical engineering in Augsburg and worked as a chemical analyst in Frankfurt and Munich before emigrating to North America in 1957.After spending several more years in the chemical industry in Montreal and Milwaukee, he embarked on a new course of studies, obtainin…
Remembering Netizens
Netizens, Michael and Ronda Hauben’s foundational treatise on Usenet and the Internet, was first published in print 25 years ago. In this piece, we trace the history and impact of the book and of Usenet itself, contextualising them within the contemporary and modern-day scholarship on virtual communities, online culture, and Internet history. We discuss the Net as a tool of empowerment, and touch on the social, technical, and economic issues rela…
Determinants of Poor Health among Workers in Criminal Justice, Community and Social Services, and Healthcare
Adverse childhood experiences and workplace trauma exposure are associated with poor health. However, their differential impacts by gender are difficult to assess in studies of organizations with gender imbalances (e.g., law enforcement officers are more likely men whereas social workers are more likely women). Using a community-based participatory research framework, this study examines trauma exposure, mental and physical health, and substance …
On the use of scale distortion for visual humour
In contrast to verbal humour, visual humour remains a relatively underdeveloped area of research. In this exploratory study, we investigate whether scale incongruity – i.e., discrepancy between the expected and actual experience of the size of an object – can serve as a source of humour in the visual modality. We adapt a pre-existing visual data set of mundane scenes by altering the size of an individual object in each scene and collecting humoro…
What’s in a pun? Assessing the relationship between phonological distance and perceived funniness of punning jokes
Punning is a form of humorous wordplay based on semantic ambiguity between two phonologically similar words – the pun and the target – in a context where both meanings are more or less acceptable. While the pun is expressed explicitly, the target is invoked implicitly in the text. Previous work has attempted to quantify and compare phonological features of puns and their targets, looking at correlations with the understandability of the jokes in …
Computer Science (3 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Pun (2 works) · Adverse Childhood Experiences (1 work)