In two recent posts, I touched on both nonverbal and verbal types of formal humor. In this one, I continue our review of the latter category by discussing two styles of humor seen quite regularly in ...

Researchers say their new algorithm trained on a database of various TV show clips can detect sarcasm 75% of the time. By Tom Hawking Published May 17, 2024 1:17 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

Sarcasm is so ubiquitous these days, it almost goes unnoticed. But, as David Beckham proved, when he was sent off this week for seemingly clapping a referee who had just booked him, not everyone is a ...

Reading the room perfectly for how we feel about artificial intelligence (AI), the Speech Technology Lab at the University of Groningen has finally created a programme able to discern tone of voice ...