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You need some thought to make somebody laugh
Who's joking?
During COLING 2008 and EMNLP 2008 our lab members presented their work on artificial humor and a chatbot using associations from the Web. Some researchers ask me - is this a research on jokes or joke about research? Some time ago a reviewer asked one of my student - why do you call it a dialog agent? It's just a chatbot!
Is it really so hard to imagine that joking or chatting needs more than a dose of intelligence? Maybe such topics are not profitable right now, but it is easy to imagine that many people would rather buy talkative funny housekeeping robot than a cold-hearted silent one :)
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