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Computational Humor

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2002)

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Humor is something we human beings cannot live without. It has been studied since the ancient times and in the Twentieth Century several theories have been introduced to explain it (see for instance [1]).

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Stock, O. (2002). Computational Humor. In: Cerri, S.A., Gouardères, G., Paraguaçu, F. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2363. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47987-2_2

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