Graéme Ritchie
Biographic Data
| ID | 6550915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graéme Ritchie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graéme |
| FAMILY NAME | Ritchie |
| SIGNATURE | RITCHIE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Logic and reasoning in jokes
It has often been remarked that jokes involve some form of distorted logic, but the details of this joke logic have not been fully explored. We offer a contribution to the methodology of this exploration by clarifying some abstract theoretical distinctions. Firstly, we separate two crucially different notions of "reasoning" which are relevant to joke comprehension: internal logic and audience inference. Internal logic is a system of logical rules…
Reinterpretation and viewpoints
It has often been observed that many jokes rely on the audience reinterpreting the initial part of the joke once the punchline is encountered. In order to elaborate on this account, we outline how these reinterpretations may happen in various ways. The examples we consider suggest that the generalization is best stated not in terms of syntactic or even semantic forms, since the same mechanism seems to occur in jokes presented visually or partly v…
Towards a model of story puns
There is a class of joke which consists of an anecdote, which is sometimes quite long and often has no inherently humorous content, followed by a punchline which is a distorted form of some well-known phrase, proverb or quotation. Usually the punchline purports to summarise or draw a moral from the preceding story. This genre has some unusual aspects, from the viewpoint of conventional claims about the attributes of jokes. These jokes also have c…
Children's evaluation of computer-generated punning riddles
We have developed a formal model of certain types of riddles, and implemented it in a computer program, JAPE, which generates simple punning riddles. In order to test the model, we evaluated the behaviour of the program, by having 120 children aged eight to eleven years old rate JAPE-generated texts, human-generated texts, and non-joke texts for "jokiness" and funniness. This confirmed that JAPE's output texts are indeed jokes, and that there is …
Computational rules for generating punning riddles
Computational morphology of English
Temporal Clauses in English
Reinterpretation and viewpoints
It has often been observed that many jokes rely on the audience reinterpreting the initial part of the joke once the punchline is encountered. In order to elaborate on this account, we outline how these reinterpretations may happen in various ways. The examples we consider suggest that the generalization is best stated not in terms of syntactic or even semantic forms, since the same mechanism seems to occur in jokes presented visually or partly v…
Computational rules for generating punning riddles
Temporal Clauses in English
Computational morphology of English
Children's evaluation of computer-generated punning riddles
We have developed a formal model of certain types of riddles, and implemented it in a computer program, JAPE, which generates simple punning riddles. In order to test the model, we evaluated the behaviour of the program, by having 120 children aged eight to eleven years old rate JAPE-generated texts, human-generated texts, and non-joke texts for "jokiness" and funniness. This confirmed that JAPE's output texts are indeed jokes, and that there is …
Computational rules for generating punning riddles
Towards a model of story puns
There is a class of joke which consists of an anecdote, which is sometimes quite long and often has no inherently humorous content, followed by a punchline which is a distorted form of some well-known phrase, proverb or quotation. Usually the punchline purports to summarise or draw a moral from the preceding story. This genre has some unusual aspects, from the viewpoint of conventional claims about the attributes of jokes. These jokes also have c…
Reinterpretation and viewpoints
It has often been observed that many jokes rely on the audience reinterpreting the initial part of the joke once the punchline is encountered. In order to elaborate on this account, we outline how these reinterpretations may happen in various ways. The examples we consider suggest that the generalization is best stated not in terms of syntactic or even semantic forms, since the same mechanism seems to occur in jokes presented visually or partly v…
Logic and reasoning in jokes
It has often been remarked that jokes involve some form of distorted logic, but the details of this joke logic have not been fully explored. We offer a contribution to the methodology of this exploration by clarifying some abstract theoretical distinctions. Firstly, we separate two crucially different notions of "reasoning" which are relevant to joke comprehension: internal logic and audience inference. Internal logic is a system of logical rules…
Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Joke (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)