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Humorist Bot: Bringing Computational Humour in a Chat-Bot System

Salvatore GaglioGiovanni PilatoG. SacconeA. Augello

subject

MultimediaComputer scienceComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTINGComputational humorFace (sociological concept)Computational intelligencecomputer.software_genreKnowledge-based systemsIntelligent agentHuman–computer interactionchatbot wordnet lsaUser interfaceDialog systemcomputerAvatar

description

A conversational agent, capable to have a ldquosense of humourrdquo is presented. The agent can both generate humorous sentences and recognize humoristic expressions introduced by the user during the dialogue. Humorist Bot makes use of well founded techniques of computational humor and it has been implemented using the ALICE framework embedded into an Yahoo! Messenger client. It includes also an avatar that changes the face expression according to humoristic content of the dialogue.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2008-01-012008 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems
https://doi.org/10.1109/cisis.2008.117