Incongruity often makes people laugh. You have to be smart to say stupid things. It requires to be even smarter for understanding them. This paper is a shameless attempt to formalize this intelligent behavior in the case of an agent listening to a joke. All this is a matter of revision of beliefs, surprise and violation of norms.
@article{arxiv.2309.02009,
title = {Belief revision and incongruity: is it a joke?},
author = {Florence Dupin de Saint Cyr - Bannay and Henri Prade},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.02009},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
A special paper on/in humor/honor for/of Philippe Besnard