About me
I'm dr. ir. Thomas Winters, a post-doctoral researcher in artificial intelligence and computational humor at KU Leuven.
Computational Humor Projects
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MarcelBot
Imitates Marcel from Willy's and Marjetten
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RobBERT Humor Detection
Distinguishing jokes from generated non-jokes, creating the first Dutch humor detectors
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Improbotics Flanders
Playing improv theatre with artificial intelligence
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Talk Generator
Automatic slideshow generation about any topic
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MopjesBot
Twitterbot making Dutch puns about the news
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SamsonBots
Six mutually-interactive Twitterbots based on Samson & Gert characters
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Automatic Joke Generation
My master's thesis about "Automatic joke generation: learning humor from examples"
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TorfsBot
Twitterbot automatically imitating Rik Torfs, the previous rector of KU Leuven
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Twitterbots
Various little Twitterbots I made over the years