hackapun

big data week hackathon

objectives

Find puns in texts that are not supposed to be funny.

Make a classifier -> pun / no-pun

How do we do it?

• What makes a pun? A pun is defined by Webster as "the humorous use of a word, or of words which are formed or sounded alike but have different meanings, in such a way as to play on two or more of the possible applications; a play on words."

Tasks

• Gather data ** puns sentences ** non-puns sentences ** non-puns that look like puns

• Understand what is a pun

• Find a way to find out if words are related or not