Essays about: "Laughter"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 essays containing the word Laughter.

  1. 1. Serious Triviality : A Serious Societal Critique in a Trivial Setting in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Fredrik Zadig; [2023]
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    Abstract : In the late Victorian era, the British upper-class seemed to have set up their own standard of morals where truthfulness and religious conviction gave way for manners and appearance. Oscar Wilde was an outspoken socialist and talented author who shared his critique towards the ills of this society within his literary works. READ MORE

  3. 2. Re-imagining the World Through Popular Poetry Set in Motion by the Ultimate Signalling Officer Alan Alexander Milne

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Anja Skogberg Lundin; [2023]
    Keywords : 20th Century war-poets; Alan Alexander Milne; Winnie-the-pooh; The Great War; soldiers; pacifism;

    Abstract : Alan Alexander Milne’s authorship was never limited to being the author of the very beloved teddy-bear, far from it. In addition to being a successful playwrite and editing Punch, Milne also wrote several poetry collections which all have been out of print since the 1940s in the entire English-speaking world. READ MORE

  4. 3. LAUGHTER PREDICTION IN TEXT BASED DIALOGUES Predicting Laughter using Transformer-Based Models

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Hemanth Kumar Battula; [2022-06-20]
    Keywords : Transformer; BERT; Laughter; Sliding Window;

    Abstract : In this paper we will attempt to predict and assess the performance of predicting laughter using a BERT model (Devlin et al., 2019), and a BERT model finetuned on the Open subtitles dataset with and without considering dialogue-acts classes as well as sliding window of dialogues. READ MORE

  5. 4. Laughing til' I'm dead : A qualitative study of emojis in laughable contexts

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Ilona Kröll; [2022]
    Keywords : TikTok; Laughter; Emoji; Preference; CMC;

    Abstract : Since 1990, the usage of emojis has increased and become a part of our everyday communication.The ambiguous nature of emojis has been shown by multiple previous studiesbut there is a qualitative gap in research of what the meaning of these emojis are. READ MORE

  6. 5. Gamification in Disc Golf : Using Gamification to Improve Disc Golf User Experience

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik

    Author : Johannes Baeckman; [2022]
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    Abstract : Gamification is at its core a way to make a serious task more fun. This paper examines the potential use of gamification within the sport of disc golf and tries to determine whether a gamified variant of the sport can increase fun and improve the disc golf user experience. READ MORE