Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!ece-csc!mcnc!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!clong From: clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Understanding Jokes Message-ID: Date: 11 Nov 88 22:47:00 GMT References: <3244@sdsu.UUCP> <349@itivax.UUCP> <380@coma.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 22 In article <380@coma.UUCP>, Arnfried Ossen writes: > In article <349@itivax.UUCP> David H. West writes: > >In article <3244@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 9.5 Watch out, or the next thing you know, you'll be asking for something really absurd, like for a test that will give you a number, say between 0 to 200, that measures intelligence. -- Chris Long Mathematics Department Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903