COMPUTATIONAL-HUMOR-ANALYSING-STANDUP-COMEDY-USING-NLP-ML

Sentiment Analysis of Standup Comedy audio and closed captions.

• 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.

• We used Live At The Apollo S11E01 for this proof of concept study.

• The presentation can be viewed here: https://goo.gl/T8JiUt

• The results were presented at the 7th annual Humor Research Conference (HRC) 2017 in Dallas, Texas, USA