Humorist Bot: Bringing Computational Humour in a Chat-Bot System

A conversational agent, capable to have a "sense of humour" is presented. The agent can both generate humorous sentences and recognize humoristic expressions introduced by the user during the dialogue. HumoristBot makes use of well founded techniques of computational humor and it has been implemented Using the ALICE framework embedded into an Yahoo! Messenger client. It includes also an avatar that changes the face expression according to humoristic content of the dialogue.