The notion of constructions, from Construction Grammar, is borrowed for use in joke recognition by a knowledge-based computational text analysis system. The joke recognizer is a proposed addition to an existing text analysis framework, Ontological Semantic Technology. Joke recognition is based upon calculation that the candidate text exhibits qualities similar to jokes already collected and represented in a taxonomy, with other processing input. Joke templates, based on constructions, provide semantic scripts against which texts are judged. With these scripts, meta-jokes, which conform almost but not completely to a known joke script, may also be recognized.
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