Department Colloquium: Computational analysis and translation of wordplay

Time
Thursday, 4. May 2023
11:45 - 13:15

Location
G 307

Organizer
Department of Linguistics

Speaker:
Tristan Miller (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Wien)

Humor and wordplay are essential aspects of human communication that computational methods have yet to master. In this talk, I present some recent advances in the computational modelling and processing of humorous wordplay aimed primarily at applications in machine- and machine-assisted translation.

Abstract