Exploring Lexical-Semantic Knowledge in the Generation of Novel Riddles in Portuguese

Исследование лексико-семантических знаний при создании новых загадок на португальском языке
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Ricardo Rodrigues
2018-01-01

Portuguese riddle generationconcept featureshuman evaluationlexical-semantic knowledgenatural language generation
We describe an effort towards the automatic generation of novel riddles in Portuguese, ultimately with humour value.Riddle generation fits in the common architecture of a NLG system and may follow different models, described here, all based on features of a concept, acquired from a lexical-semantic knowledge base.Generated riddles were manually assessed by humans, who rated them as fairly interpretable, surprising, and novel, even if with low humour potential.
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Human evaluators rated the generated riddles as fairly interpretable, surprising, and novel.
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Several riddle-generation models are implemented within a common natural language generation architecture.
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The generated riddles showed limited humour potential despite positive ratings for interpretability, surprise, and novelty.
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The models generate riddles using features of concepts acquired from a lexical-semantic knowledge base.
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The study investigates automatic generation of novel Portuguese riddles, with the broader goal of producing humorous content.

Automatically generated novel riddles in Portuguese

Lexical-semantic knowledge and feature-based NLG models for generating riddles, evaluated for interpretability, surprise, novelty, and humour potential

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Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
Ricardo Rodrigues
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