Preface: Artificial Intelligence of Humor — Computational Humor

The general goal of the symposium was to advance the state of the art in the direction of developing an AI system (the system) capable of understanding the mechanism of a joke at a level sufficient for providing a punch line to a human generated setup (even if unintentional) and conversely, for computer reacting competently to a human generated punch line that follows a setup, generated by either participant. The effort is multidisciplinary in nature, and the participants from several of the contributing disciplines, viz., computational semantics, knowledge representation, computational psychology, humanoid robotics, human-computer interface, human factors, to name just a few, took part in the work of the symposium.