Understanding the import of laughter, has interested philosophers and literary scholars for
millennia and, more recently, psychologists, biologists, neuroscientists, and linguists …

Laughter is a crucial signal for communication and managing interactions. Until now no
consensual approach has emerged for classifying laughter. We propose a new framework …

We tackle the problem of generating a pun sentence given a pair of homophones (eg," died"
and" dyed"). Supervised text generation is inappropriate due to the lack of a large corpus of …

In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise
account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. The account draws on the concepts …

Together, the code and inferential models of communication are often thought to range over
all cases of communication. However, their prevailing versions seem unable to fully explain …

Although laughter is known to be a multimodal signal, it is primarily annotated from audio. It
is unclear how laughter labels may differ when annotated from modalities like video, which …

Enjoyment is a crucial yet complex indicator of positive user experience in Human-Robot
Interaction (HRI). While manual enjoyment annotation is feasible, developing reliable …

Previous experimental findings support the hypothesis that laughter and positive emotions
are contagious in face-to-face and mediated communication. To test this hypothesis, we …

We explain why general techniques from formal linguistics can and should be applied to the
analysis of monkey communication–in the areas of syntax and especially semantics. An …

In this paper we treat humorous situations as a series of events underpinned by topoi,
principles of reasoning recognised within a socio-cultural community. We claim that …