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Graeme Ritchie |
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Department of Computing Science University of Aberdeen King's College ABERDEEN AB24 3UE Room 232 in the Meston Building Telephone +44 (0)1224 272383 Email:- Username: [formed by First-Initial(DOT)Surname] Domain: abdn(DOT)ac(DOT)uk |
I am a Senior Research Fellow in the Natural Language Generation group. My area of interest is creative language generation: getting computers to produce jokes, stories, poetry. Within that, my principal interest is in the formalisation of the mechanisms of humour.
Principal investigator for the project STANDUP: Facilitating language play in non-speaking children through computer supported joke construction. This was funded by EPSRC from October 2003 to March 2007, in collaboration with the University of Dundee and the University of Edinburgh. Visit the project's web page if you would like more information, or wish to download our software.
Researcher/co-investigator on the Natural Language Group's platform grant, funded by EPSRC, from March 2007 onwards.
Researcher/co-investigator on The Joking Computer project, which is developing the STANDUP software (above) into a public exhibit, with funding from the EPSRC, from February 2009 to July 2010.
Principal supervisor for the PhD research of Chris Venour, with Chris Mellish as the other supervisor (March 2007 onwards).
Secondary supervisor for Imtiaz Khan, with Kees van Deemter being the principal supervisor (early 2006 onwards).
Honorary fellow in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
Publications since 1995 (mostly in online form).
Complete list of publications (PDF file).
"The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes"
7th International Summer School and Symposium on Humour and Laughter : held in Aberdeen in July 2007.
International Summer School and Symposium on Humour and Laughter: the general website for this ongoing event, founded in 2001.
Workshop on Language Play and Computers: a two-day event in August 2006.
Illugraphics: a highly recommended graphic designer.
Practical guides to nearby eateries, for visitors: lunching on campus during the summer vacation and economy-budget eating places for the evening (both written for a specific event in July 2007, and possibly inappropriate for other uses... but feel free to edit them yourself).