Sentiment Analysis of Standup Comedy audio and closed captions.
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We Quantitatively measured the effect of positive and negative language-use in jokes on the duration and amplitude of the following laughter outburst using Sentiment Analysis, Audio Processing and Statistical Tests.
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We used Live At The Apollo S11E01 for this proof of concept study.
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The presentation can be viewed here: https://goo.gl/T8JiUt
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The results were presented at the 7th annual Humor Research Conference (HRC) 2017 in Dallas, Texas, USA