> I took some time to look through what you said and checked around the

internet.

Look harder?

I took some time to look through what you said and checked around the internet. Interestingly, I found nothing that proves wrong the information I conveyed.

Look harder?

Are you familiar with the difference with the words ‘tell’ and ‘make’ or ‘create’?

Indeed. Ontology-based joke generators are more complex than something that simply reposts existing jokes. They are still quite straightforward.

For instance, you can write a pun generator using an ontology like NELL’s by identifying a word with two senses, then producing a statement that begins by implying one sense but ends by verifying the other. There’s an implementation of this algorithm in lisp from 1995 floating around — should be within the first ten pages of google results for “computational humor” since it’s gotten frontpage on slashdot a few times. That kind of joke isn’t usually very funny, but it’s quite unambiguously created by the system.

you should find out about its current state

I’m part of the generative fiction community. I write these sorts of things on a regular basis.

There are tutorials. If you have any interest in the subject, I recommend reading them.

By John Ohno on May 26, 2018.

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