AIH 2012 - Symposium on Artificial Intelligence of Humor

Human ability to communicate is incomplete without the use of humor. If a computational system is ever to approximate human communication ability or act as a competent partner in a conversation with a human, humor must be accounted for. The general goal of the proposed Symposium is to advance the state of the art in the direction of developing an AI system ("the system") capable of understanding the mechanism of a joke at a level sufficient for providing a punch line to a human generated setup (even if unintentional) and conversely, for computer reacting competently to a human generated punch line that follows a setup, generated by either participant. The effort is multidisciplinary in nature, and the participants from all of the contributing disciplines, viz., computational semantics, knowledge representation, computational psychology, AI theory, humanoid robotics, human-computer interface, human factors, to name just a few, are invited to participate.
Topics
Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
humor detection and generation
semantic representation of jokes
reasoning within jokes
priming and saliency in jokes
humor preferences
humor ontology
modeling humor competence
modeling humor performance
humor in humanoid robotics
social computing with humor
detecting humor trends
computational humor for education