Why are jokes funny?

I would be interested in some of the results of this work and I certainly would not mind contributing. It seems however that I cannot add to the funding now as I just joined the platform. Is there a way for me to keep updated and/or be able to view the lab notes?

My first term paper in gradschool was called "Project HAC: Humor and Computers." Using a case-based parser and cheap semantic network (the Semitic Netquirk!) it analyzed puns. I didn't publish, but many people have! Use some of this money to do the background research, for example: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/search?q=humor+computers

@cfournie - Yes! I'm going to make everything public. The HITs (you sound like you know what you're talking about!), the raw data, and the framework for running a multi-step Turk process. Stay tuned!

I like this idea!!! Great application of natural language processing!

As part of your results, will you be sharing the hits (i.e., data) collected by the Turkers? I would love to be able to play with such data, as would many others I'm sure.