Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!mhuxh!mhuxu!m10ux!rgr
From: rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Understanding Jokes
Keywords: hundreds if not thousands
Message-ID: <753@m10ux.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 18:12:33 GMT
References: <3244@sdsu.UUCP> <349@itivax.UUCP> <380@coma.UUCP>
Reply-To: rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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In article <380@coma.UUCP> ao@coma.UUCP (Arnfried Ossen) writes:
>In article <349@itivax.UUCP> dhw@itivax.UUCP (David H. West) writes:
>>In article <3244@sdsu.UUCP> caasi@sdsu.UUCP (Richard Caasi) writes:
>>>Does anyone know of any work or program that takes a joke as
>>>input and outputs some number, say between 0 to 10, based on
>>>the funniness of the joke?
>>
>>7.3
>
>9.0

1.4  (it's already been done.)

(does this mean I'll get a higher or lower mark?  Is there some
pattern to the sequence?  Maybe we could come up with a celluar
automata to generate this sequence....)