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From: dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Understanding Jokes
Summary: How about Real Time input???
Message-ID: <777@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 10:45:48 GMT
References: <3244@sdsu.UUCP> <333@igor.Rational.COM>
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In article <333@igor.Rational.COM>, dsb@Rational.COM (David S. Bakin) writes:
> In article <3244@sdsu.UUCP>, caasi@sdsu (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?
> 
> I want to know too!  It would make an excellent kill filter for
> rec.funny.  -- Dave

Welll....., the folks down in Hollywood (who have very strange ideas
about what a computer is) have db meters on almost every audience in
creation that listens to live programs.  We could always hook up an
ADC to the db meter and feed the input into a computer.  Actually
though, there must be some other measure that could be made into a
rule based system..... (any takers?).

dharvey@wsccs