Logical forms in wit
Logical forms in wit
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机智的逻辑形式
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2005
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Sebastian Mhatre
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D. Winterstein;Sebastian Mhatre
本文对一类笑话和妙语的逻辑结构进行了初步的理论探讨。我们发现，有一系列的笑话，可以被理解为故意穷人的言语行为（意图是通过各种手段，包括废话，戏仿和自我参考）。构建这样的话语通常需要智慧和创造力。因此，笑话可能已经进化（通过择偶力量）成为一种展示心理健康的方式。这项工作的目标是提高我们对幽默的理解（通过笑话的正式理论），以及计算机识别和生成笑话的技术。因此，它专注于需要相对较少的世界知识的结构。我们确定了几个逻辑形式，引起笑话，并显示这些形式对应于违反“良好的讲话规则”（例如格莱斯的格言）。作为这种分析的结果，提出了几种算法的笑话生成。这些算法还有待实施和测试。不过，希望他们能将计算机生成的笑话扩展到更广泛的领域。
This paper presents a preliminary theory for the logical structure underlying a certain class of jokes and witty comments. We show that there is a range of jokes which can be understood as intentionally poor speech acts (where the intention is conveyed by a variety of means, including nonsense, parody and self-reference). Constructing such utterances typically requires intelligence and creativity. Hence jokes may have evolved (via mate-selection forces) as a way of demonstrating mental fitness. The goal of this work is both improving our understanding of humour (via formal theories of jokes), and techniques for the computer recognition and generation of jokes. It therefore focuses on structures that require relatively little world-knowledge. We identify several logical forms that give rise to jokes, and show how these forms correspond to violations of ‘the rules of good speech’ (e.g. Grice’s Maxims). As a result of this analysis, several algorithms are proposed for joke generation. These algorithms have yet to be implemented and tested. Hopefully though, they will extend computer-generation to a wider range of jokes.