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July 21, 2010. What do you get when you cross humour with science? A joke-generating computer programme, created by Aberdeen scientists to help children develop their language skills, is launched online.
The software - known as The Joking Computer - has the capacity to build millions of different jokes using a large dictionary of language and simple language rules.
It was originally devised to help children with disabilities such as cerebral palsy build on their language skills.
The technology has since been developed into an interactive exhibit - aimed towards children of all ages and abilities - that is now on show at Aberdeen's Satrosphere Science Centre and Glasgow Science Centre.
The launch of the online version
www.abdn.ac.uk/jokingcomputer/joker
will now allow people from across the globe to try their hand at building their very own gags.
Some of the jokes created by the Joking Computer include:
- What kind of tree is nauseated?
- A sick-amore
- What do you get when you cross a frog with a road?
- A main toad
- What do you get when you cross a mum with an award?
- A prize mummy