Abstract:Sketch comedy and crosstalk are two popular types of comedy. They can relieve people's stress and thus benefit their mental health, especially when performances and scripts are high-quality. However, writing a script is time-consuming and its quality is difficult to achieve. In order to minimise the time and effort needed for producing an excellent script, we explore ways of predicting the audience's response from the comedy scripts. For this task, we present a corpus of annotated scripts from popular televisi… Show more
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