There’s something satisfying about spotting irony in the wild. Whether it’s a sign that says one thing but shows another or a ...

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 ...

"Two negatives produce a positive," declared the middle school math teacher, "But two positives never produce a negative." A ...

A team of students participating in Cornell University’s Tech Challenge program has developed a machine learning application that attempts to break the final frontier in language ...

Scroll through Twitter and you’ll find plenty of sarcastic comments—not to mention lots of cases where sarcasm apparently went straight over someone’s head. Luckily, an algorithm MIT researchers ...

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