Graeme D. Ritchie
List of John Benjamins publications for which Graeme D. Ritchie plays a role.
Articles
2011 Dimensions of incongruity in register humour The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 125–144 | Article
Register-based humour consists of texts in which most of the language is in a particular style or tone, except for one or two words which are radically different in tone (or register) from the rest. It is not initially clear how to define register formally in terms of constructs, such as… read more
1997 Children's evaluation of computer-generated punning riddles Pragmatics & Cognition 5:2, pp. 305–354 | Article
We have developed a formal model of certain types of riddles, and implemented it in a computer program, JAPE, which generates simple punning riddles. In order to test the model, we evaluated the behaviour of the program, by having 120 children aged eight to eleven years old rate JAPE-generated… read more
1997 Approximate chart generation from non-hierarchical representations Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Selected Papers from RANLP ’95, Mitkov, Ruslan and Nicolas Nicolov (eds.), pp. 273–294 | Article