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  <Title>What Humour Tells Us About Discourse Theories</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have examined the mechanisms behind verbal humour and shown how existing discourse models are inadequate at capturing the mechanisms of humour. We have proposed a probabilistic  WTA model based on lexical frequency distributions that is more capable at handling humour, and is based on the notion of expectation and dissonance. null It would be interesting now to find necessary and sufficient conditions under this framework for humour to be generated. Although the above  frameworkcanidentifyincongruityinhumourdiscourse, the same mechanisms are used and indeed are often integral to other forms of literature. Poems, for example, often rely on such mechanisms. Are Freudian thoughts the key to separating humour from the rest, or is it a result of the intentional misleading done by the speaker of a joke? Also, it would be very interesting to find an empirical link between the extent of incongruity in jokes in our framework and the way people respond to them.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Finally, a very interesting question is the acquisition of the lexicon under such a model. How are lexical semantic models learned by the language acquirer probabilistically? An exploration of the question might result in a cognitively sound computational model for acquisition.</Paragraph>
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