Belief revision and incongruity: is it a joke?

09/05/2023

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by   Florence Dupin de Saint Cyr - Bannay, et al.

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Incongruity often makes people laugh. You have to be smart to say stupid things. It requires to be even smarter for understanding them. This paper is a shameless attempt to formalize this intelligent behavior in the case of an agent listening to a joke. All this is a matter of revision of beliefs, surprise and violation of norms.