About me

I'm dr. ir. Thomas Winters, a post-doctoral researcher in artificial intelligence and computational humor at KU Leuven.

Computational Humor Projects

2023
Solo project

MarcelBot

Imitates Marcel from Willy's and Marjetten

2020
Project lead

RobBERT Humor Detection

Distinguishing jokes from generated non-jokes, creating the first Dutch humor detectors

2019
Project collaborator

Improbotics Flanders

Playing improv theatre with artificial intelligence

2018
Project lead

Talk Generator

Automatic slideshow generation about any topic

2018
Solo project

MopjesBot

Twitterbot making Dutch puns about the news

2017
Solo project

SamsonBots

Six mutually-interactive Twitterbots based on Samson & Gert characters

2017
Solo project

Automatic Joke Generation

My master's thesis about "Automatic joke generation: learning humor from examples"

2016
Solo project

TorfsBot

Twitterbot automatically imitating Rik Torfs, the previous rector of KU Leuven

2015
Solo project

Twitterbots

Various little Twitterbots I made over the years