What's your laughter doing there? a taxonomy of the pragmatic functions of laughter

C Mazzocconi, Y Tian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

In search of meaning and its representations for computational linguistics

S Dobnik, R Cooper, A Ek, B Noble… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
In this paper we examine different meaning representations that are commonly used in
different natural language applications today and discuss their limits, both in terms of the …

Laughter meaning construction and use in development: children and Spoken Dialogue Systems

C Mazzocconi - International conference on human-computer …, 2022 - Springer
In the current work a brief overview of some studies conducted on laughter taking a
multidisciplinary perspective will be presented. The integration of analyses of corpus data …

[PDF][PDF] How do you make an AI get the joke? Here's what I found on the web'

V Maraev, E Breitholtz, C Howes - First AISB Symposium on …, 2020 - christinehowes.com
Humour in interaction relies on general and domain-specific knowledge and can be
formalised in terms of defeasible reasoning instances and types, ie enthymemes and topoi …

[PDF][PDF] Knock-knock! who's there? the laughter-enhanced virtual realestate agent

B Ludusan, P Wagner - Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung, 2021 - essv.de
We present here an investigation into the use of social laughter in humanmachine
interaction. We employed an overhearer study, in which the interaction between a virtual …

We went to look for meaning and all we got were these lousy representations: aspects of meaning representation for computational semantics

S Dobnik, R Cooper, A Ek, B Noble, S Larsson… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
In this paper we examine different meaning representations that are commonly used in
different natural language applications today and discuss their limits, both in terms of the …

[BUCH][B] Who is laughing now? Laughter-infused dialogue systems

V Maraev - 2022 - gupea.ub.gu.se
This thesis paves the way for including laughter in spoken dialogue systems in a domain-
general and linguistically valid way using computational linguistics tools and methods. The …

[PDF][PDF] " This is Ours... why Should [we] be Exempt?": Black South African Lesbian Couples' Experiences of Identity in the Lobola Practice

L Mkhize - 2019 - wiredspace.wits.ac.za
“This is ours… why should [we] be exempt?”: Black South African lesbian couples’ experiences
of identity in the lobola p Page 1 “This is ours… why should [we] be exempt?”: Black South …

Predicting laughter relevance spaces in dialogue

V Maraev, C Howes, JP Bernardy - Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper we address the task of predicting spaces in interaction where laughter can
occur. We introduce the new task of predicting actual laughs in dialogue and address it with …