Belief revision and incongruity: is it a joke?
Florence Dupin de Saint Cyr - Bannay (IRIT-ADRIA), Henri Prade, (IRIT-ADRIA)
TL;DR
This paper explores how belief revision, surprise, and norm violations contribute to humor, aiming to formalize the cognitive processes behind understanding and appreciating jokes.
Contribution
It introduces a formal framework modeling belief revision and incongruity in humor comprehension for intelligent agents.
Findings
Proposes a formal model of belief revision in humor understanding
Highlights the role of surprise and norm violation in humor appreciation
Suggests computational approaches to simulate joke comprehension
Abstract
Incongruity often makes people laugh. You have to be smart to say stupid things. It requires to be even smarter for understanding them. This paper is a shameless attempt to formalize this intelligent behavior in the case of an agent listening to a joke. All this is a matter of revision of beliefs, surprise and violation of norms.
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